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don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages |
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Sun, 29 Nov 2015 04:01:12 +0800 |
On both the head and tail man pages,
can you kindly not use "K"?
-c, --bytes=K
output the last K bytes; or use -c +K to output bytes starting
with the Kth of each file
K bytes sounds like kilobytes.
Yes if one reads carefully it doesn't.
But instead if you used X, then one needn't read carefully and could
still read the page!
Or how about B? B bytes. Sounds even better than X.
Anyway it (K) appears several places on both man pages.
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Re: bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages |
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Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:36:23 +0000 |
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On 30/11/15 21:14, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 06:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 11/30/2015 09:23 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Fine with me, except for "NUMth" or "NUM'th", which do not read well.
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>> The more-common usage is "NUMBERth", generated by 'tar --help' and also
>> used in the sed manual. It's a little odd but it sort of rhymes with
>> "fourth".
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> Thanks for all the suggestions.
> I think NUMBER is a bit long, and reduces the space for the description,
> or it my destroy the aligning.
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> My suggestion is NUM (which is also used in grep(1) BTW).
> Patch attached ... it's just not so tiny because I also fixed the order
> of the options of tail in the Texinfo manual.
Lots of little changes adding up to a much better result.
Looks good.
Marking bug as done.
thanks!
Pádraig
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