Subject: coreutils: docs should tell that lines are numbered from 1
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:26:36 +0200
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.32-4+b1
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: none, Francesco Potortì <[email protected]>
File: /usr/bin/tail
Neither the info manual nor the man page state that when using -c+NUM or
-n+NUM the first line or byte in number 1.
In orther words, the docs should state that lines or bytes are numbered
starting from 1 (and not 0).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.53-10
ii libattr1 1:2.4.48-6
ii libc6 2.31-11
ii libgmp10 2:6.2.1+dfsg-1
ii libselinux1 3.1-3
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
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