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Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: tail +n does not work under Linux? |
Date: |
Fri, 29 May 2009 16:06:58 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) |
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Eric Blake on 5/20/2009 8:20 AM:
>>> CNT doesn't read too well :)
>>> How about COUNT or NUM?
>> COUNT runs into length problems - adding 4 characters per instance builds up
>> fast. I'll try with NUM instead. As it is, I already had to rephrase
>> things
>> since "nth" is a word, but "count'th" and "num'th" are not.
>
> According to Matthew Woehlke on 5/20/2009 10:22 AM:
>> s/N/K/ ? :-)
>
>> Is "K'th" item too awkward? (Or some other letter that isn't 'N'?)
>
> I like the idea of Kth. How about this version of the patch?
That's an improvement. I've a slight reservation in that
K is a valid suffix, but I think this is fine.
cheers,
Pádraig.
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, (continued)
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Matthew Woehlke, 2009/05/07
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Christophe LYON, 2009/05/11
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Bob Proulx, 2009/05/11
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Christophe LYON, 2009/05/12
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Eric Blake, 2009/05/20
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Jim Meyering, 2009/05/20
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Pádraig Brady, 2009/05/20
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Eric Blake, 2009/05/20
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Matthew Woehlke, 2009/05/20
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Eric Blake, 2009/05/29
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?,
Pádraig Brady <=
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Jim Meyering, 2009/05/29
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Eric Blake, 2009/05/29
- Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Christophe LYON, 2009/05/20
Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/05/08