Re: [PATCH] tail -1 usage

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

Do not change this as some tail/heads do not support -n.
This has been discussed before and came to the concessions that GNU 
coreutils
was wrong to remove that feature in the first place.


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski



On Sunday, Jun 29, 2003, at 13:30 US/Eastern, Olaf Hering wrote:

> The new gnu coreutils do not allow tail/head -1 anymore.
>
> There are a few more places, maybe it must be fixed/changed elsewhere.
>
>  find -type f | grep -vw CVS | xargs grep -E 
> '(tail|head)[[:blank:]]+-1'
>
>
>
>         * contrib/test_summary: use tail -n 1
>
> Index: contrib/test_summary
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/contrib/test_summary,v
> retrieving revision 1.25
> diff -u -p -u -r1.25 test_summary
> --- contrib/test_summary	9 Mar 2003 01:33:00 -0000	1.25
> +++ contrib/test_summary	29 Jun 2003 17:25:25 -0000
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ configflags == "" {
>      srcdir = configflags;
>      sub(/\/configure .*/, "", srcdir);
>      printf "LAST_UPDATED: ";
> -    system("tail -1 " srcdir "/LAST_UPDATED");
> +    system("tail -n 1 " srcdir "/LAST_UPDATED");
>      print "";
>
>      sub(/^[^ ]*\/configure */, " ", configflags);
> --
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