On 2005-12-02 14:07:45 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > Sorry, I was wrong. It _is_ standards-conformant. What I should have > said was: it is ambiguous; different standards prescribe different > behavior. I base this on the upstream text that I quoted.
OK. > For the record, can you please clarify this issue? Was the statement > in NEWS that I quoted earlier incorrect? What is a correct variant > of that statement? It is incorrect anyway. "tail -c4" doesn't work on Solaris, so that it is not OK for portable scripts: craffe:~> echo abcdef | /bin/tail -c4 usage: tail [+/-[n][lbc][f]] [file] tail [+/-[n][l][r|f]] [file] zsh: done echo abcdef | zsh: exit 2 /bin/tail -c4 Here one needs to do: craffe:~> echo abcdef | /bin/tail -4c def Solaris sucks. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]