Subject: bug#42711: Tail does not recognize line number spec for multiple files

From: Davide Brini <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 21:14:24 +0200

On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 18:19:11 +0000, Anonymousemail
<[email-masked]> wrote:

> This command gives an error:
>
> $ tail -5 foo bar baz
> tail: option used in invalid context -- 5
>
> For comparison, the equivalent head commans works exactly as expected:

Even if head works, the -<number> syntax is obsolete and should be replaced
by -n <number>.

Try "tail -n 5" and it should work.

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