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bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:23:17 -0800 |
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29/11/15 23:35, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 11/29/2015 12:16 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> I remember having slight reservations about K too.
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00279.html
>>> Nothing much better comes to mind.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> In that discussion, also longer alternatives like COUNT or CNT were
>> mentioned. If we decide to go that way, I'd favor NUM among those
>> suggestions, as it may also be used as is in translations.
>>
>> While at it, I'm wondering if it would make sense to emphasize
>> the optional plus ('+') for tail in the first column, similar as
>> for the minus ('-') for head (although only for 'man head', but
>> not in the Texi documentation):
>>
>> $ src/head --help | grep -A2 -- '^[ ]*-[cn]'
>> -c, --bytes=[-]K print the first K bytes of each file;
>> with the leading '-', print all but the last
>> K bytes of each file
>> -n, --lines=[-]K print the first K lines instead of the first 10;
>> with the leading '-', print all but the last
>> K lines of each file
>>
>> $ src/tail --help | grep -A1 -- '^[ ]*-[cn]'
>> -c, --bytes=K output the last K bytes; or use -c +K to output
>> bytes starting with the Kth of each file
>> --
>> -n, --lines=K output the last K lines, instead of the last 10;
>> or use -n +K to output starting with the Kth
>>
>> Is there some GNU standard for this? I couldn't find much.
>
> +1 for [+]NUM
Fine with me, except for "NUMth" or "NUM'th", which do not read well.
I guess we could change s/with the Kth/with line NUM/
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Dan Jacobson, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Pádraig Brady, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Assaf Gordon, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/11/29
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Pádraig Brady, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages,
Jim Meyering <=
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Paul Eggert, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Pádraig Brady, 2015/11/30