Re: small documentation change in tail

[Eric Blake]

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According to bhargav joshi on 4/5/2007 2:30 PM:
> If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a ‘+’,
> print beginning with the Nth item
> from the start of each file, otherwise, print the last N items in the
> file. N may have a multiplier suf-
> fix: b 512, k 1024, m 1024*1024.
> 
> above documentation is cryptic
> 
> + <value> print all lines starting from <value>th line
> - <value> print the last <value> lines
> 
> eg: if value=3
> tail +3 <filename> print all lines starting from 3rd line
> tail -3 <filename> prints last 3 lines

Thanks for the ideas.  However, 'tail -3' doesn't comply with the latest
POSIX.  And I am not quite sure how you wanted the documentation changed.
 If you really want it different, it would be nicer if you could provide a
patch for discussion, rather than leaving us guessing at what you wanted
to see.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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