[mdlug] grep bug?

[Michael Corral]

2008-04-16, Monsieur Raymond McLaughlin a ecrit:
> Notice the following anomalous
> behavior of tail (tail (GNU coreutils) 6.9) on OpenSuSE 10.3:
>
>  pts/1 $ echo "It was the best of times..." | tail -c10;echo
>   times...
>  pts/1 $ echo "It was the best of times..." | tail -c 10
>  tail: cannot open `10' for reading: No such file or directory
>  pts/1 $
>
> I would expect (wrongly?) either syntax to work.

It works in Fedora 7, with GNU coreutils 6.9:

$ echo "It was the best of times..." | tail -c 10
  times...


Michael