Pádraig Brady writes: >> We can improve for the above 2 cases anyway, >> with something like the attached. >> Large magnitude negative start values are still problematic. > > Ok I pushed that with a test included:https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/701416709 > Marking this as done. Thanks for the fix. Just pushed this tiny patch to fix a 'make syntax-check' failure. Collin