From 1c318d52de2ae0edd8584bdc53562c10f8bd984b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:27:09 +0000 Subject: 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 . --- doc/coreutils.texi | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') 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, -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2