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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1995-07-27 03:56:35 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1995-07-27 03:56:35 +0000 |
commit | 8c17f50aea64f125655602fe2c2efb8855e88d9d (patch) | |
tree | 4576f346cc5db8790f320fdfca64cf7b0de7a465 /old/textutils | |
parent | 28e28e6d749747b1b77878d31308c665195283ca (diff) | |
download | coreutils-8c17f50aea64f125655602fe2c2efb8855e88d9d.tar.xz |
(tail_bytes) [from_start]: For regular files, seek
relative to the initial input file pointer position, not
necessarily from the beginning of the file.
[!from_start]: Don't back up past the initial position of the
input file pointer.
(tail_lines): Call file_lines only if FD refers to a regular file
with its file pointer positioned at beginning of file. Otherwise,
call pipe_lines. This is a kludge. Once there's a decent test
suite, fix this properly.
Before, (echo 1; echo 2) > k; sh -c 'read x; tail' < k
would output both lines of the input file even though the first had
already been read. Reported by John Roll (john@panic.harvard.edu).
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