"Kevin Burtch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tail version 5.96 (as supplied in Fedora Core 5) has a bug where it > does not recognize "+" as a command-line argument: > > $ tail +4 /etc/hosts > tail: cannot open `+4' for reading: No such file or directory > > This does not comply with the supplied man-page: > > If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines)
But the man page does not say that you can use "tail N FILE". It does say that you can use "tail -n N FILE", which in this case would be "tail -n +4 /etc/hosts". For more on the subject, please consult the documentation, e.g., <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_mono/coreutils.html#tail-invocation>. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
