On 12/17/2012 11:37 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
Man you guys are bananas using "K" here:
:)
-c, --bytes=[-]K
print the first K bytes of each file; with the leading `-',
print all but the last K bytes of each file
Why can't you use "X" etc. etc.?
It used to be 'N' which was confusing with the -n option:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/threads.html#00073
So we changed to 'K' with slight reservations as it was better.
It took 15 minutes for me to figure out that you weren't talking about
kilobytes. Yes one only has to read down further. But kindly fix it anyway.
Changing to 'X' or a generic word like 'VAL' is a possibility.
thanks,
Pádraig
