(seq invocation): In the example, use "tail

-n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 6c351c3b80dbfe56d5110b9ecf50e7b37576a50c..11b1469886be257389b5975d96015c33e287951d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -11000,7 +11000,7 @@ For very long lists of numbers, use xargs to avoid
 system limitations on the length of an argument list:
 
 @example
-$ seq -f %1.f 1000000 | xargs printf %x'\n' |tail -3
+$ seq -f %1.f 1000000 | xargs printf %x'\n' | tail -n 3
 f423e
 f423f
 f4240