(tail invocation): Say that the obsolete form uses exactly one

option and at most one file.

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index b1d31713119fe005d2a7a68297ed84954be6ba3b..65e008f1d060f8fb51bebcc305f0153348a93b74 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
        * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): ln -v now outputs lines only for
        successful links.
+       (tail invocation): Say that the obsolete form uses exactly one
+       option and at most one file.
 
 2005-11-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index cd1a0d25e7472f3fba083ef3f0d40c2b22946e88..c35ae91402584a5aebd1bc1fef75bca701b1e181 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2552,7 +2552,8 @@ Always print file name headers.
 For compatibility @command{tail} also supports an obsolete usage
 @samp{tail -@var{count}[bcl][f] [@var{file}]}, which is recognized
 only if it does not conflict with the usage described
-above.  @var{count} is an optional decimal number optionally
+above.  This obsolete form uses exactly one option and at most one
+file.  In the option, @var{count} is an optional decimal number optionally
 followed by a size letter (@samp{b}, @samp{c}, @samp{l}) to mean count
 by 512-byte blocks, bytes, or lines, optionally followed by @samp{f}
 which has the same meaning as @option{-f}.