From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: POSIX conformance in coreutils
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:18:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050112091800.GA4486@sc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r7kr31g9.fsf@zion.rcn.com>
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:01:26PM -0500, Vin Shelton wrote:
> GNU coreutils (at least versions 5.2.1 and 5.3.0) enforce POSIX
> conformance, so they don't like 'tail -1', instead they require
> 'tail -n 1'.
>
> This causes problems in E01options.tst:
>
> # Count the number of directories on the stack. Don't care what they are.
> dircount() { dirs -v | tail -1 | awk '{ print $1 + 1}'; }
>
> tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'
> Try `tail --help' for more information.
[...]
YMMV.
~$ tail --version
tail (coreutils) 5.2.1
[...]
~$ tail -1 /dev/null
~$
tail -n 1, even if POSIX, is not portable. I think I've come
across a system where it was not supported recently (maybe
Solaris).
> dircount() { dirs -v | tail -1 | awk '{ print $1 + 1}'; }
Maybe:
dircount() { print $((${${(z)${(f)"$(dirs -v)"}[-1]}[1]} + 1)); }
Or:
dircount() { dirs -v | awk '{n=$1}END{print n+1}'; }
--
Stéphane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-12 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-12 1:01 Vin Shelton
2005-01-12 9:18 ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2005-01-12 16:12 ` POSIX conformance in Solaris Danek Duvall
2005-01-12 10:27 ` POSIX conformance in coreutils Peter Stephenson
2005-01-12 10:42 ` Stephane Chazelas
2005-01-12 14:19 ` Vin Shelton
2005-01-12 15:58 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-02-23 16:36 ` Oliver Kiddle
[not found] ` <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
2005-02-23 18:24 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-01-12 16:18 ` Bart Schaefer
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