Bug 128061 - tail -c +<number> doesn't work
Summary: tail -c +<number> doesn't work
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: All SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Andreas Schwab
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Reported: 2005-10-13 12:10 UTC by Jan Beulich
Modified: 2010-09-28 15:47 UTC (History)
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Description Jan Beulich 2005-10-13 12:10:50 UTC 
Without setting _POSIX2_VERSION=200112 (or higher) in the environment, this
syntax working in all (tested) previous SL and SLES versions is no longer
accepted (+<number> is considered a file name).
The reason for this is that the coreutils package gets configured with a default
Posix version of 199209, making the utility apply obsolete command line parsing
rules.
According to a comment from schwab@suse.de this is to keep historical scripts
happy, but I seriously doubt that such compatibility should come at the price of
breaking current standards.
Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2005-10-13 12:29:50 UTC 
Fixed.