[BusyBox] bug#1244: tail -1 doesn't work

[Axel Barnitzke]

See Patch from Robert Griebl "Support for old style options..."
from 05/15/02

Todd Hansen wrote:

> Package: busybox
> Version: 0.60.3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
>     Unfortunatly, some software packages expect the -x option to work
> where the x is the number of lines to show in the tail. For example I was
> trying to do a make distclean on gcc-2.95.3 and it failed on a number of
> lines with the error message:
> 
> tail: invalid option -- 1
> BusyBox v0.60.3 (2002.05.13-21:18+0000) multi-call binary
> ....
> 
> Anyway, for most everyday activities this functionality is fine. But for
> some applications that rely on a specific command line to tail it would be
> great for it to support this.
> 	-todd
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