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bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages |
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Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:52:14 +0000 |
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On 29/11/15 23:35, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/29/2015 12:16 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I remember having slight reservations about K too.
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00279.html
>> Nothing much better comes to mind.
>
> Thanks.
> In that discussion, also longer alternatives like COUNT or CNT were
> mentioned. If we decide to go that way, I'd favor NUM among those
> suggestions, as it may also be used as is in translations.
>
> While at it, I'm wondering if it would make sense to emphasize
> the optional plus ('+') for tail in the first column, similar as
> for the minus ('-') for head (although only for 'man head', but
> not in the Texi documentation):
>
> $ src/head --help | grep -A2 -- '^[ ]*-[cn]'
> -c, --bytes=[-]K print the first K bytes of each file;
> with the leading '-', print all but the last
> K bytes of each file
> -n, --lines=[-]K print the first K lines instead of the first 10;
> with the leading '-', print all but the last
> K lines of each file
>
> $ src/tail --help | grep -A1 -- '^[ ]*-[cn]'
> -c, --bytes=K output the last K bytes; or use -c +K to output
> bytes starting with the Kth of each file
> --
> -n, --lines=K output the last K lines, instead of the last 10;
> or use -n +K to output starting with the Kth
>
> Is there some GNU standard for this? I couldn't find much.
+1 for [+]NUM
cheers,
Pádraig
- 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, 2015/11/28
- 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 <=
- 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