Re: seq 0 10 100|sed 1d

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Dan Jacobson wrote: >seq should have some more options so one wouldn't have to use sed here: >$ seq 0 10 100|sed 1d I think "seq 10 10 100" will give the same result. Cheers, Phil ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu

Another testsuite nit: `set -'

The testsuite had several uses of `set - $list', such that $list could safely begin with `-'. But 1) POSIX has obsoleted this usage, and 2) in several shells (at least ash and bash), using - instead of -- as the separator gives the shell the right to reset -v and -x, which kills the trace when

seq 0 10 100|sed 1d

seq should have some more options so one wouldn't have to use sed here: $ seq 0 10 100|sed 1d ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Support for `tail -10', etc. even when conforming to POSIX.1-2001

I installed this patch to coreutils to bring back support for commonly used commands like "tail -10" even when conforming to POSIX.1-2001, as a compatible extension to POSIX. There are still a few remaining trouble spots (see the NEWS patch below) but most of the problems should be resolved to eve