Re: tail +n does not work under Linux?

[Eric Blake]

Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes:

> > -  -n, --lines=N            output the last N lines, instead of the last %
d;\n\
> > -                           or use +N to output lines starting with the 
Nth\n\
> > +  -n, --lines=CNT          output the last CNT lines, instead of the last %
d;\n\
> > +                           or use +CNT to skip the first CNT-1 lines\n\
> >        --max-unchanged-stats=N\n\
> 
> CNT doesn't read too well :)
> How about COUNT or NUM?

COUNT runs into length problems - adding 4 characters per instance builds up 
fast.  I'll try with NUM instead.  As it is, I already had to rephrase things 
since "nth" is a word, but "count'th" and "num'th" are not.

> What about the texi docs?

They already used @var{count} rather than @var{n} in some instances, but I will 
go ahead and sweep these to make them all consistent.

> Would one change head -n docs also for consistency?

Sure, sounds good.

> What about the other instances of N in tail --help?

For --max-unchanged-stats, I actually WANT to keep N.  After all, you can't 
use --max-unchanged-stats=1k, nor can you use --max-unchanged-stats=+2 to mean 
start at the second item.  For all other instances of N in tail, my first patch 
already caught them.

I'll work on respinning this patch to cover more territory.

-- 
Eric Blake