Re: GNU coding standards clash with POSIX for "... | tail -f"

Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're welcome to change it whichever way seems best. > Thanks for dealing with that. You're welcome. I installed that, but did not add the two new tests I proposed since on second thought they were redundant. _

Re: tail claims "tail +n" is deprecated

Quoting Paul Eggert: : Raphael Manfredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > The problem is that "portable scripts" (e.g. Configure-type scripts) : > were written years ago : : Which Configure-type script are you thinking of, exactly? I can send : in a bug report to its maintainer. None in particu

Re: tail claims "tail +n" is deprecated

Raphael Manfredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is that "portable scripts" (e.g. Configure-type scripts) > were written years ago Which Configure-type script are you thinking of, exactly? I can send in a bug report to its maintainer. ___ B

Re: tail claims "tail +n" is deprecated

Hi Alfred, Thanks for the quick reply. The subject seems to have been beaten to death already, as I've learned, so let's not restart a flame war. Quoting Alfred M. Szmidt: :There's a bug in recent tail: it claims "tail +20" is deprecated :and I should use "tail -n +20". : : It isn't a b

Re: tail claims "tail +n" is deprecated

There's a bug in recent tail: it claims "tail +20" is deprecated and I should use "tail -n +20". It isn't a bug, it is intended. (coreutils)Standards conformance: |Newer versions of POSIX are occasionally incompatible with older | versions. For example, older versions of POSIX require

tail claims "tail +n" is deprecated

There's a bug in recent tail: it claims "tail +20" is deprecated and I should use "tail -n +20". This is a joke, right? Since when is perfectly valid syntax becoming deprecated? If you want to implement "tail -n +20", fine. But don't force everyone on the planet to update scripts that have been

Re: GNU coding standards clash with POSIX for "... | tail -f"

Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This bug report is prompted by a defect report Geoff Clare recently > sent to the Open Group about 'tail' > . ... > I propose that we resolve this clash as follows.