Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a POSIX-conforming "head" program may > support a "-1" option. It may also support a > "-2" option, and so on.
That violates POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines 3 and 11. See: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html#tag_12_02 Most likely the underlying problem is that your distribution has decided to set _POSIX2_VERSION to 200112 in <unistd.h>. This indicates that the distribution's maintainers want conformance to POSIX 1003.1-2001 as specified above. To get the older behavior that you prefer, you can set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your environment, or build coreutils with "configure DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209". _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
