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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-11-01 23:05:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-11-01 23:05:00 +0000 |
| commit | 4fb9c70faf7888cf5d3a7bdf73fc1dbd7aa34c31 (patch) | |
| tree | 68d5cbc5d4653349131ca50036f4d8e23ad53dbb /doc/coreutils.texi | |
| parent | 18eb295ec4bf60364c4e818f2168156db8139ed3 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-4fb9c70faf7888cf5d3a7bdf73fc1dbd7aa34c31.tar.xz | |
(tail invocation): Describe obsolete usages
like "tail -2" more precisely.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 8f220b192..7166352bc 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2549,9 +2549,9 @@ Always print file name headers. @end table -For compatibility @command{tail} also supports an obsolete option -syntax @option{-@var{count}[bcl][f]}, which is recognized only if it -is specified first and does not conflict with the usage described +For compatibility @command{tail} also supports an obsolete usage +@samp{tail -@var{count}[bcl][f] [@var{file}]}, which is recognized +only if it does not conflict with the usage described above. @var{count} is an optional decimal number optionally followed by a size letter (@samp{b}, @samp{c}, @samp{l}) to mean count by 512-byte blocks, bytes, or lines, optionally followed by @samp{f} |