Krieg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you can do 'head -N blah' and the '-' will reverse the meaning of the N.

I guess you mean "head -n -<N> blah".

> tail should have the same option but there is no '-' support.

It's there, but it's spelled differently.  "tail -n +42" will print
everything from line 42 to the end.


paul


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