severity 340364 normal
stop
"tail -c 4" is not standards-conformant, so this is not a bug.
Quoting from coreutils NEWS:
A few usages still have behavior that depends on which POSIX standard is
being conformed to, and portable applications should beware [of] these
problematic usages. These include:
Problematic Standard-conforming replacement, depending on
usage whether you prefer the behavior of:
POSIX 1003.2-1992 POSIX 1003.1-2001
...
tail -c 4 tail -c 10 ./4 tail -c4
I suggest that this be "wontfix"ed.
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Thomas Hood
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