Peter S. Vasilyev wrote: > I'm using GNU utils for win32 and I have a problem.
Thanks for taking the time to report a problem. But when reporting problems please say what version of the program you are using. Frequently it is found that the program isn't even one of the ones maintained here! tail --version > File mode12.dat contains 10576 lines: > > D:>wc mode12.dat > 10576 81512 1061137 mode12.dat > > D:>tail -n=10570 mode12.dat > 12 > C:\WINNT\System32\tail.EXE: =10570: invalid number of lines > > Why? You have used an incorrect syntax. The '=' is bogus there. Use one of these instead. tail -n 10570 mode12.dat > 12 tail -n10570 mode12.dat > 12 tail --lines=10570 mode12.dat > 12 Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
