Re: Undocumented tail(1) behaviour

[aisa_(_at_)_cybermesa_(_dot_)_com]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:34:24PM -0000, Brian J. Kifiak wrote:
> It would seem that ``tail -10b'' and ``tail -10c'' are equivilant to
> ``tail -b 10'' and ``tail -c 10,'' respectively.
> 
> This isn't documented in tail(1).
> 
> Is this behaviour deprecated, or should it be documented?
> 
> 

If you look at getopt(3), you'll see that using a number as an
option is deprecated.  I assume that this behaviour of tail is
for compatibility with older/other unix releases.

aisa