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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2008-11-26 14:27:09 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2008-11-26 14:27:09 +0000
commit1c318d52de2ae0edd8584bdc53562c10f8bd984b (patch)
tree1da722b72876d298983035838ebbba030461a511
parent186b655094d38ce6de30a943a0fd8ac16e36c9ea (diff)
downloadcoreutils-1c318d52de2ae0edd8584bdc53562c10f8bd984b.tar.xz
doc: tail: fix description of --bytes=N (-c)
* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Use @var{n} consistently, not a mix of that and @var{bytes}. Reported by anonymous in <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24934>.
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 07dba34b9..092574855 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2696,11 +2696,11 @@ The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}.
@table @samp
-@item -c @var{bytes}
-@itemx --bytes=@var{bytes}
+@item -c @var{n}
+@itemx --bytes=@var{n}
@opindex -c
@opindex --bytes
-Output the last @var{bytes} bytes, instead of final lines.
+Output the last @var{n} bytes, instead of final lines.
However, if @var{n} starts with a @samp{+}, start printing with the
@var{n}th byte from the start of each file, instead of from the end.
Appending @samp{b} multiplies @var{bytes} by 512,