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List: busybox
Subject: Re: [BusyBox] [PATCH] support "tail +nnn"
From: bug1 () optushome ! com ! au
Date: 2002-12-23 5:01:03
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:07:30 -0800
Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> wrote:
> (Apologies if this has been posted before.)
>
> Some shell scripts from very big, very popular companies rely on the
> obsolete syntax
> tail +10 foo.txt
>
> Turns out this is very easy to implement; here's a patch against
> busybox 0.60.5. Please review, and if it's ok, please apply.
>
I used a different approach to add this feature to the unstable branch,
and saved a few bytes in the proces :)
I was thinking of adding a define CONFIG_FEATURE_TAIL_OBSOLETE to turn
this feature off, it wont save any space, but maybe some people dont
want the obsolete features enabled, comments ?
Glenn
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