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bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:30:28 -0800
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On 11/30/2015 09:23 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Fine with me, except for "NUMth" or "NUM'th", which do not read well.

The more-common usage is "NUMBERth", generated by 'tar --help' and also used in the sed manual. It's a little odd but it sort of rhymes with "fourth".





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