GNU bug report logs - #11020
man page Tail : last -> most recent?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Gijs Hillenius <gijs <at> hillenius.net>

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11020: closed (man page Tail : last -> most recent? )
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:53:02 +0000

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From: Gijs Hillenius <gijs <at> hillenius.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: man page Tail : last -> most recent? 
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:23:07 +0100

Hello,

I just happen to notice an extra space in the man page of tail between
Print and the


"Print  the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output"

that is in the man page of the tail application included in Debian
Linux.


But, more importantly:

I would write

Print the most recent 10 lines of each FILE to standard output ....



Kind greetings

Gijs Hillenius




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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Gijs Hillenius <gijs <at> hillenius.net>
Cc: 11020-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11020: man page Tail : last -> most recent?
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:22:00 -0700

On 03/16/2012 12:14 AM, Gijs Hillenius wrote:
> I figured "most recent" would clearify that in a brief manner, but it
> does not either.

Yes, it's hard to write clear and brief usage messages
and sometimes there just isn't any good solution.
Anyway, I'm closing out this bug report for now.
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 129 days ago.

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