[Fedora] did tail semantics change?

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Fri Jun 22 00:06:00 UTC 2007


Jack Tanner wrote:
> There are these two commands:
>
> head -219554 tokenized > ../eng.train
> tail +219555 tokenized > ../eng.testa
>
> The first one works on F7; the second one errors out:
> tail: cannot open `+219555' for reading: No such file or directory
>
> So, bug or no bug? And is it just funny on F7 or can you repro it elsewhere?
>   
    No bug, just POSIX standards change.  If you want the old behavior, 
set the following:

    setenv _POSIX2_VERSION 199209

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