On 11/28/2015 06:16 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 28/11/15 23:02, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
The archives (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/) start 2010,
so does anyone remember why K would be less ambigous than N?
The mailing list split around then:
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.
Likely this message:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00200.html
Perhaps it was too similar/confusing to the (now discouraged) usage of "-N" with N being
a digit (e.g. "head -9" to display 9 lines) ?
Slightly off topic,
if you want to search in multiple gnu mailing lists at once,
this hack might help:
http://search.housegordon.org/
regards,
-assaf
