[PATCH] tail -1 usage

[Gerald Pfeifer]

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?

>         * contrib/test_summary: use tail -n 1

Unfortunately, this would break sparc-sun-solaris2.9's /usr/bin/tail
and probably quite a couple of other systems. :-(

Gerald
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