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Re: [PATCH] Change head/tail call in build/buildcheck.sh

From: Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk>
Date: 2003-09-09 03:22:59 CEST

Art Haas <ahaas@airmail.net> writes:

> This is a trivial patch to replace the older format of head/tail calls
> with the newer format using '-n'. Newer GNU coreutils will error out
> when calling head/tail and a numeric argument without the '-n'.

What about platforms that don't use GNU coreutils? Do Solaris, AIX,
HP_UX, etc. all support the new syntax?

I believe setting the environment variable _POSIX2_VERSION to 199209
will restore the old coreutils behaviour. 

-- 
Philip Martin
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