Cheers, I can't see any diff with tail -n 3 and tail -n -3 though... All the best, Dan
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Paul Eggert wrote: >Dan Bolser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Calls to head with negative line numbers should return that number of >> lines from the end of the file. > >You can use "tail -n 1" for that. > >"tail -n COUNT" already uses the sign of the count for something >different, so it would be confusing if "head" used the sign in the way >that you suggest. > _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
