It is incorrect anyway. "tail -c4" doesn't work on Solaris, so that it
is not OK for portable scripts:
"portable" means "standards compliant", not "will work with any ancient
syntax ever promulgated by any vendor". To get portable behavior on
solaris you need to run from /usr/xpg4/bin rather t
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 thi
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2005-12-01 16:53:02 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
>> severity 340364 normal
>> stop
>>
>> "tail -c 4" is not standards-conformant, so this is not a bug.
>
> It is standard conformant. Please look at
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/tail.html
>
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2005-12-01 16:53:02 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
>> severity 340364 normal
>> stop
>>
>> "tail -c 4" is not standards-conformant, so this is not a bug.
>
> It is standard conformant. Please look at
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/uti
On 2005-12-01 16:53:02 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> severity 340364 normal
> stop
>
> "tail -c 4" is not standards-conformant, so this is not a bug.
It is standard conformant. Please look at
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/tail.html
There is a space between -c and the n
severity 340364 normal
stop
"tail -c 4" is not standards-conformant, so this is not a bug.
Quoting from coreutils NEWS:
A few usages still have behavior that depends on which POSIX standard is
being conformed to, and portable applications should beware [of] these
problematic usages. These
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