"Thomas Heine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > contrary to documentation and old versions the following commands > don't work any longer for new versions of tail, as present in newer > versions of Debian and Novell linux: > > tail -1 *.inp (*.inp gives a list of some files) gives an error (tail: > invalid option -- 1). ...
Thanks for the report, but this aspect of tail depends on the version of tail you're using and possibly on your environment settings. Using the latest (coreutils-6.9) version, with no setting for _POSIX2_VERSION in your environment, it should work just fine: $ env -u _POSIX2_VERSION -- /usr/bin/tail -1 /etc/issue $ tail --version|head -n1 tail (GNU coreutils) 6.9 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
