Re: bug found in head

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:41:49 +0100

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Nik Reiman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think I found a bug in the GNU head, from textutils version 2.0.
> For some reason, head has trouble parsing numbers with a leading 0;
> and primarily the numbers "08" and "09".  For instance:
...
> head: 08: number of lines is so large that it is not representable
> head: 09: number of lines is so large that it is not representable

Thanks for the report.
That's been fixed for a while.
The latest test release is here:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/