Debian Bug report logs - #987369
coreutils: docs should tell that lines are numbered from 1

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Package: coreutils; Maintainer for coreutils is Michael Stone <[email protected]>; Source for coreutils is src:coreutils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Francesco Potortì <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:36:05 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version coreutils/8.32-4

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Report forwarded to none, [email protected], Michael Stone <[email protected]>:
Bug#987369; Package coreutils. (Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:36:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Francesco Potortì <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to none, [email protected], Michael Stone <[email protected]>. (Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:36:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Francesco Potortì <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
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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