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BUG: tail 5.93 -c argument is optional?
From: |
sqweek |
Subject: |
BUG: tail 5.93 -c argument is optional? |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:25:44 +0800 |
Hi, just noticed this odd behaviour from tail:
$ echo foo >bar
$ tail -c3 bar
oo
$ cat bar |tail -c3
oo
# Working fine so far...
$ cat bar |tail -c 3
tail: cannot open `3' for reading: No such file or directory
# What's that?? 3 is clearly the argument I intend for -c, not a filename!
Interestingly, this works fine:
$ tail -c 3 bar
oo
But this is somewhat questionable:
$ tail -c 3
tail: cannot open `3' for reading: No such file or directory
- BUG: tail 5.93 -c argument is optional?,
sqweek <=