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commit ea8622a4ce21e414050e116542cb76581d40d27a
parent 1ab4ac60ff891ee4dcd0ca729e9f897c4f4a1f42
Author: Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org>
Date:   Mon,  3 Jul 2017 14:58:52 -0700

tail: Process bytes with -c option, and add -m option for runes

POSIX says that -c specifies a number of bytes, not characters. This
flag is commonly used by scripts that operate on binary files to things
like extract a header. Treating the offsets as character offsets will
break things in mysterious ways.

Instead, add a -m option (chosen to match `wc -m`, which also operates
on characters) to handle character offsets.

Diffstat:
Mtail.1 | 6+++---
Mtail.c | 29++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tail.1 b/tail.1 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl f -.Op Fl c Ar num | Fl n Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num +.Op Fl c Ar num | Fl m Ar num | Fl n Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num .Op Ar file ... .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm @@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ is given, reads from stdin. .Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width Ds -.It Fl c Ar num | Fl n Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num +.It Fl c Ar num | Fl m Ar num | Fl n Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num Display final .Ar num -characters | lines | +bytes | characters | lines | lines. If .Ar num begins with '+' diff --git a/tail.c b/tail.c @@ -26,12 +26,23 @@ dropinit(int fd, const char *fname, size_t count) goto copy; count--; /* numbering starts at 1 */ while (count && (n = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0) { - if (mode == 'n') { + switch (mode) { + case 'n': /* lines */ for (p = buf; count && n > 0; p++, n--) { if (*p == '\n') count--; } - } else { + break; + case 'c': /* bytes */ + if (count > n) { + count -= n; + } else { + p = buf + count; + n -= count; + count = 0; + } + break; + case 'm': /* runes */ for (p = buf; count && n > 0; p += nr, n -= nr, count--) { nr = charntorune(&r, p, n); if (!nr) { @@ -42,6 +53,7 @@ dropinit(int fd, const char *fname, size_t count) break; } } + break; } } if (count) { @@ -90,7 +102,8 @@ taketail(int fd, const char *fname, size_t count) if (n == 0) break; len += n; - if (mode == 'n') { + switch (mode) { + case 'n': /* lines */ /* ignore the last character; if it is a newline, it * ends the last line */ for (p = buf + len - 2, left = count; p >= buf; p--) { @@ -102,7 +115,11 @@ taketail(int fd, const char *fname, size_t count) break; } } - } else { + break; + case 'c': /* bytes */ + p = count < len ? buf + len - count : buf; + break; + case 'm': /* runes */ for (p = buf + len - 1, left = count; p >= buf; p--) { /* skip utf-8 continuation bytes */ if ((*p & 0xc0) == 0x80) @@ -111,6 +128,7 @@ taketail(int fd, const char *fname, size_t count) if (!left) break; } + break; } if (p > buf) { len -= p - buf; @@ -125,7 +143,7 @@ taketail(int fd, const char *fname, size_t count) static void usage(void) { - eprintf("usage: %s [-f] [-c num | -n num | -num] [file ...]\n", argv0); + eprintf("usage: %s [-f] [-c num | -m num | -n num | -num] [file ...]\n", argv0); } int @@ -143,6 +161,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) fflag = 1; break; case 'c': + case 'm': case 'n': mode = ARGC(); numstr = EARGF(usage());