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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1996-05-31 03:35:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1996-05-31 03:35:32 +0000 |
| commit | 20522f2f5d05091ba199f332752f00ad9927abbe (patch) | |
| tree | 476c932fe1629875b0a6d831ebeae9bf851d62a0 /src/tail.c | |
| parent | 7b297f76c48fe0c37e63ed0c95aad26c04320262 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-20522f2f5d05091ba199f332752f00ad9927abbe.tar.xz | |
(main): Interpret the old-style +VALUE and -VALUE
options like -c VALUE and -c +VALUE (resp) when VALUE has one of
the [bkm] suffix multipliers. This makes the code consistent
with --help output.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/tail.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index 9f899d33c..fe631f9fa 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -861,7 +861,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) if (argc > 1 && ((argv[1][0] == '-' && ISDIGIT (argv[1][1])) - || (argv[1][0] == '+' && (ISDIGIT (argv[1][1]) || argv[1][1] == 0)))) + || (argv[1][0] == '+' && (ISDIGIT (argv[1][1]) + || argv[1][1] == 0)))) { /* Old option syntax: a dash or plus, one or more digits (zero digits are acceptable with a plus), and one or more option letters. */ @@ -878,6 +879,11 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) { STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR (argv[1], _("argument"), s_err); } + + /* If a [bkm] suffix was given then count bytes, not lines. */ + if (p[-1] == 'b' || p[-1] == 'k' || p[-1] == 'm') + count_lines = 0; + /* Parse any appended option letters. */ while (*p) { |