Re: head

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:42:01 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Julian Wald <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think I've found a small bug in "head". If you issue
>
> head -n 09 file
> head: 09: number of lines is so large that it is not representable

Thanks for the report.
That's been fixed for some time.
The latest release is here:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.gz
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)