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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1997-01-22 04:53:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1997-01-22 04:53:52 +0000 |
| commit | f3f1cae09725187c7730f0c45ddb720715c84aaa (patch) | |
| tree | f420000d9bdb5d996171a44b789567f9ae6e38fc /src | |
| parent | fbe50426e2da59f4377e55cb312433321486ccfb (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f3f1cae09725187c7730f0c45ddb720715c84aaa.tar.xz | |
(main): Properly handle what the POSIX spec calls
the `obsolescent' usage (e.g., tail +2c). It didn't work.
Reported by Karl Heuer.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index bc82f100f..d79435f4b 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -874,15 +874,15 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) strtol_error s_err; char *p; - s_err = xstrtol (++argv[1], &p, 0, &tmp_long, "bkm"); + s_err = xstrtol (++argv[1], &p, 0, &tmp_long, "cbkm"); n_units = tmp_long; if (s_err == LONGINT_OVERFLOW) { 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') + /* If a [bckm] suffix was given then count bytes, not lines. */ + if (p[-1] == 'b' || p[-1] == 'c' || p[-1] == 'k' || p[-1] == 'm') count_lines = 0; /* Parse any appended option letters. */ @@ -890,11 +890,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) { switch (*p) { - case 'c': - /* Interpret N_UNITS as # of bytes. */ - count_lines = 0; - break; - case 'f': forever = 1; break; |