[Fedora] did tail semantics change?
Ashley M. Kirchner
ashley at pcraft.com
Fri Jun 22 00:06:00 UTC 2007
Jack Tanner wrote:
> There are these two commands:
>
> head -219554 tokenized > ../eng.train
> tail +219555 tokenized > ../eng.testa
>
> The first one works on F7; the second one errors out:
> tail: cannot open `+219555' for reading: No such file or directory
>
> So, bug or no bug? And is it just funny on F7 or can you repro it elsewhere?
>
No bug, just POSIX standards change. If you want the old behavior,
set the following:
setenv _POSIX2_VERSION 199209
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H | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.
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