[RLUG] Re: quick question

[Tim Hammerquist]

On 2006-06-30 12:19:42 -0700, Jeff Shippen wrote:
> Strange, my system works with +x as the only option, and in every
> experience i have, it's worked that way (incl unix).  Maybe we can
> all do a test with it and see what the deal is - I've attached
> a text file with lines counting to 30 for testing purposes, but you
> can do whatever you want with it ;-)

Of all my systems, only the OpenBSD manpages for head and tail
document the plain (/sans/ "-n") form.

I wish I could find the source I originally read this from, but IIRC,
the `{head,tail} -10` is legacy syntax maintained for compatibility,
but the "-n" form is the currently encouraged use.

Tim