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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2008-11-26 14:27:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2008-11-26 14:27:09 +0000 |
| commit | 1c318d52de2ae0edd8584bdc53562c10f8bd984b (patch) | |
| tree | 1da722b72876d298983035838ebbba030461a511 /doc | |
| parent | 186b655094d38ce6de30a943a0fd8ac16e36c9ea (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-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>.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -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 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, |