close 30504 stop (triaging old bugs)
On 2018-02-17 3:37 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote:
There is a backward-compatibility problem with supporting "tail -2" with any number of extra arguments, since (for example) "tail -2c 20" has a different meaning in traditional "tail" than you might think. To avoid confusion, "tail -2" is not encouraged when using non-traditional features (in your case, two or more FILE arguments). Since "tail -n2 FILE1 FILE2 ..." suffices, it's not clear that it'd be worth the aggravation to rethink this.
Given the above, and no further comments, I'm closing this bug. -assaf
