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man page Tail : last -> most recent? |
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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:23:07 +0100 |
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Hello,
I just happen to notice an extra space in the man page of tail between
Print and the
"Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output"
that is in the man page of the tail application included in Debian
Linux.
But, more importantly:
I would write
Print the most recent 10 lines of each FILE to standard output ....
Kind greetings
Gijs Hillenius
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Re: bug#11020: man page Tail : last -> most recent? |
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Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:22:00 -0700 |
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On 03/16/2012 12:14 AM, Gijs Hillenius wrote:
> I figured "most recent" would clearify that in a brief manner, but it
> does not either.
Yes, it's hard to write clear and brief usage messages
and sometimes there just isn't any good solution.
Anyway, I'm closing out this bug report for now.
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