From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:41:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1_6~76
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ca2112fcedea0e1b04b7ff831ffd14f8b0dfe1d;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
-n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 6c351c3b80..11b1469886 100644
--- 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