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bug#60215: tail -c +XX on newer coreutils wants FILE


From: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
Subject: bug#60215: tail -c +XX on newer coreutils wants FILE
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:30:15 +0100
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# echo tessdfdsdsfdsfdsfdsfsdft | tail -c +13
sfdsfdsfsdft
# tail --version
tail (GNU coreutils) 8.32
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor,
and Jim Meyering.


while on newer version:

$ echo tessdfdsdsfdsfdsfdsfsdft | tail -c +13
tail: cannot open '+13' for reading: No such file or directory
$ tail --version
tail (GNU coreutils) 9.1
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor,
and Jim Meyering.


Looking at NEWS but don't see any behaviour change info, so I guess it's a bug.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )





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