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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-02-19 20:41:13 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-02-19 20:41:13 +0000
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downloadcoreutils-7ca2112fcedea0e1b04b7ff831ffd14f8b0dfe1d.tar.xz
(seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
-n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
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@@ -11000,7 +11000,7 @@ For very long lists of numbers, use xargs to avoid
system limitations on the length of an argument list:
@example
-$ seq -f %1.f 1000000 | xargs printf %x'\n' |tail -3
+$ seq -f %1.f 1000000 | xargs printf %x'\n' | tail -n 3
f423e
f423f
f4240