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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-10-28 07:50:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-10-28 07:50:51 +0000 |
| commit | 57ac7f5a0273f75489b6cff1369fd7afab36cfe2 (patch) | |
| tree | 804064e81019a09c335e42cc484eac345d442327 | |
| parent | acdb9f592e67ccd91d4fb34aa5a92db2828d8d10 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-57ac7f5a0273f75489b6cff1369fd7afab36cfe2.tar.xz | |
(Standards conformance): Use "head -10" rather than "head -1" as
example of obsolete usage, since the POSIX consensus is that "head -1"
could be supported even if we don't yet have clear consensus on "head
-10". See today's revision to the SUS FAQ
<http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/single_unix_faq.html>.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f35a7d24d..0c678d99b 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ supported for @env{_POSIX2_VERSION}: @samp{199209} stands for @acronym{POSIX} 1003.2-1992, and @samp{200112} stands for @acronym{POSIX} 1003.1-2001. For example, if you are running older software that assumes an older version of @acronym{POSIX} and uses @samp{sort +1}, -@samp{head -1}, or @samp{tail +1}, you +@samp{head -10}, or @samp{tail +10}, you can work around the compatibility problems by setting @samp{_POSIX2_VERSION=199209} in your environment. |