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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-01-31 01:38:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-01-31 01:38:05 +0000 |
| commit | 251468f113b0350679404e3bf261ecbb30dbeb27 (patch) | |
| tree | 08c98f3fb49d21af4da2ebbccb92a0513f5bdb65 /doc | |
| parent | 8d5ba536cf2f85036e9db5b79f76c6960353472a (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-251468f113b0350679404e3bf261ecbb30dbeb27.tar.xz | |
(tail invocation): In the obsolete usage, the
count is optional, so put square brackets around it.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 2 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 0694025bf..e931540b9 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In the obsolete usage, the + count is optional, so put square brackets around it. + 2006-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Invalid dates are rejected. diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 516b8475b..433b37f8f 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@ Always print file name headers. @end table For compatibility @command{tail} also supports an obsolete usage -@samp{tail -@var{count}[bcl][f] [@var{file}]}, which is recognized +@samp{tail -[@var{count}][bcl][f] [@var{file}]}, which is recognized only if it does not conflict with the usage described above. This obsolete form uses exactly one option and at most one file. In the option, @var{count} is an optional decimal number optionally |