Re: POSIX patches

Greg Hudson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 03:14, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > coreutiles do not accept -1 anymore. consider applying.
>
> You mean FSF's coreutils?
>
> susv2 documents the head -N syntax (see
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/head.html ); it seems
> pretty unwise of any implementation not to support it.

I think that's coreutils in RedHat, which contains textutils-2.1,
fileutils-4.1.11, sh-utils-2.0.15.

In RedHat 9 and while the 'command --help' doesn't show the -N
syntax, the commands do support it.

I think removing this would break a ton of scripts.

Also, how many older systems support the new syntax?

Best,
Blair

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