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bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages
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Bernhard Voelker |
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bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Nov 2015 00:02:30 +0100 |
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On 11/28/2015 09:45 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/28/2015 09:01 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Thanks.
> Another good spot.
> I'd rather use 'N' as many users would more likely see this as
> 'N'umeric argument. The following does that ... plus also switching
> 2 other placeholders to avoid overlapping with the explanation regarding
> the suffixes K, M, G, T, etc.
oops, Eric applied the opposite patch 6 years ago:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=v7.4-18-gc433334
The archives (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/) start 2010,
so does anyone remember why K would be less ambigous than N?
Have a nice day,
Berny
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Dan Jacobson, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages,
Bernhard Voelker <=
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Pádraig Brady, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Assaf Gordon, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/11/29
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Pádraig Brady, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Jim Meyering, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Paul Eggert, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Pádraig Brady, 2015/11/30