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| author |   Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> | 2010-11-01 00:24:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> | 2010-11-01 00:24:03 +0000 |
| commit | 956652a3bd0797a989d25745216665d63fa28694 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ef902b0a6c363d25a885be604b94c2362afdf28 /tools-reference | |
| parent | EAPI=4 fixes from Tim Harder <radhermit@gentoo.org>. Bug #341709 (diff) | |
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Add warning about head/tail -<number>. Bug #315937
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| -rw-r--r-- | tools-reference/head-and-tail/text.xml | 4 |
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diff --git a/tools-reference/head-and-tail/text.xml b/tools-reference/head-and-tail/text.xml index 66e9cbd..8e9db88 100644 --- a/tools-reference/head-and-tail/text.xml +++ b/tools-reference/head-and-tail/text.xml @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ To specify "the last five lines", use <c>tail -n5</c>. To specify "all but the first five lines", use <c>tail -n+5</c>. </p> +<warning> +<c>head/tail -5</c> syntax is deprecated and not POSIX compliant. +</warning> + <p> For full details, see <uri link="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/tail.html"> IEEE1003.1-2004-tail</uri>. Note that tail-1 on GNU systems describes |