On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 12:18:55PM -0500, Scott Cheloha wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 10:51:29AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > did anyone ever use it this way, or are you getting ahead of yourself. > > I don't understand the question.
I've only ever seen it used with -count as the first argument, can't say it's every occoured to me to type "head file -10". > The -count syntax was fully supported in the first revision of head(1): > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/usr.bin/head/head.c?view=markup&pathrev=1026 > > The -count syntax was fully supported through 4.4BSD: > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/usr.bin/head/head.c?revision=69237&view=markup > > The -count syntax was also standard in SUSv2: > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/head.html > > ... and then dropped in SUSv3 (POSIX-2001): > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/head.html > > FreeBSD maintains full support for the -count syntax: > > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.bin/head/head.c#n191 > > ... so clearly people have used it this way. If we're going to > support the -count syntax at all, why not fully support it? We can do > so with very little code. > >
