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bug#11020: man page Tail : last -> most recent?
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Paul Eggert |
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bug#11020: man page Tail : last -> most recent? |
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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:27:20 -0700 |
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On 03/15/2012 06:23 AM, Gijs Hillenius wrote:
> I just happen to notice an extra space in the man page of tail between
Thanks, but that's due to nroff justification to make the line lengths all the
same;
it's a property of how your man pages are formatting, not 'tail' per se,
which means the proper change would be somewhere in the man-page macros
not in coreutils proper.
> I would write
>
> Print the most recent 10 lines of each FILE to standard output ....
Hmm, why is "most recent" better than "last"? "Most recent" is a longer phrase,
and technically, the lines most recently added to a file are not
necessarily its last lines, so "most recent" is less
technically accurate.