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Re: [PATCH] tail -1 usage

From: Olaf Hering <olh at suse dot de>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:16:01 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tail -1 usage
References: <20030629173043.GA17656@suse.de> <Pine.BSF.4.56.0306301304530.23529@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

 On Mon, Jun 30, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, 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'
> 
> If they really dropped support for that, I'd consider this a (silly)
> bug, considering all the breakage it will cause to tons of scripts out
> there and file a bug report with the maintainers.
> 
> Would you mind doing that, Cc:ing me?

Maybe they reverted the breakage already. 
Another guy broke patch as I found out today, (maybe) no support for DOS
line endings anymore. No idea what they smoke in the GNU camp nowadays.


Gruss Olaf

-- 
USB is for mice, FireWire is for men!

References:
- [PATCH] tail -1 usage
  - From: Olaf Hering
- Re: [PATCH] tail -1 usage
  - From: Gerald Pfeifer

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