Re: Head -n argument position matters

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On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Jim Meyering wrote:

>That's the expected behavior, because options like `-1'
>are obsolete.

>  $ env _POSIX2_VERSION=200112 head -1
>  head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'

Yikes!  There sure are some crazy things going on in Posixland...

But surely in the current version of head, if -1 is accepted at the
start it should be accepted at the end too - for consistency with other
options.

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Ed Avis <[email protected]>
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