-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to bhargav joshi on 4/5/2007 2:30 PM: > If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a ‘+’, > print beginning with the Nth item > from the start of each file, otherwise, print the last N items in the > file. N may have a multiplier suf- > fix: b 512, k 1024, m 1024*1024. > > above documentation is cryptic > > + <value> print all lines starting from <value>th line > - <value> print the last <value> lines > > eg: if value=3 > tail +3 <filename> print all lines starting from 3rd line > tail -3 <filename> prints last 3 lines
Thanks for the ideas. However, 'tail -3' doesn't comply with the latest POSIX. And I am not quite sure how you wanted the documentation changed. If you really want it different, it would be nicer if you could provide a patch for discussion, rather than leaving us guessing at what you wanted to see. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGFZd884KuGfSFAYARAjYSAJ0YeohFjsKofZhU9MrsuQFV3uiifACgw0Zf 7RDXI/eLp1uYZiy2oM0P7k8= =84Ux -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
