Re: bug in textutils ?

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 06:57:53PM +0200, Leo Laursen wrote:
> Hi
> I just found something peculiar with "head" in debian unstable
> 
> textutils version 2.0-12
> 
> head -21 gives the first 21 lines as expected, but
> head -22 gives the first 23 lines, ie. one extra,
> and it seems that values above 21 gives an extra line.
> 
> Is this a known bug (or maybe a feature :-)
> 
> Regards Leo Laursen
> 
> I know, I have to learn how to make a proper bug report. :-)

Are you sure about this?

$ head /var/log/syslog.0 | wc -l
     10
$ head -21 /var/log/syslog.0 | wc -l
     21
$ head -22 /var/log/syslog.0 | wc -l
     22
$ head -25 /var/log/syslog.0 | wc -l
     25

etc....

$ dpkg -l textutils

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  textutils      2.0-12         The GNU text file processing utilities.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>


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