GNU bug report logs - #19857
BUG with head "-n-0"

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: matshyeq <matshyeq <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 19857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: matshyeq <matshyeq <at> gmail.com>, 19857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19857: BUG with head "-n-0"
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 09:25:11 -0800

matshyeq wrote:
> I think I've found an issue when head is called with -n-0 parameter
> It should return whole file but only seem to work for files with newline
> character at the end.

I'm not observing this problem on Ubuntu 14.10 x86-64; see below.  Which 
platform and version of 'head' are you running?  Can you send a recipe to 
reproduce the bug?

$ printf 'abc\ndef\nghi' >t
$ head -n-0 t
abc
def
ghi$ head --version | head -n1
head (GNU coreutils) 8.23
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