tail: `-5' option is obsolete; use `-n 5' since this will be removed in the future
if this numeric option is removed, it will break compatibility with a large number of scripts, it will also make it far more difficult to write a script which works the same over older and newer systems.. some older os's do not support the -n option and removing the older method from this command would mean that scripts intended to run on both old and new systems would require a complex script to determine the version of tail in use.. why is this option being removed? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
