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

[Robert Griebl]

Am Freitag, 17. Mai 2002 23:27 schrieben Sie:
> ok thanks.
>
> On Fri, 17 May 2002, Axel Barnitzke wrote:
> > See Patch from Robert Griebl "Support for old style options..."
> > from 05/15/02

Just checked it in (only CVS Head so far) -- I'm not sure if it should also
be applied to stable 0.60 tree. That should be Eriks decision...

> > >     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
> > > ....

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Robert

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