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

[Todd Hansen]

ok thanks.

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Axel Barnitzke wrote:

> See Patch from Robert Griebl "Support for old style options..."
> from 05/15/02
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> Todd Hansen wrote:
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> > 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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