-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to נחשון ישורון/Nachshon Yeshurun on 11/11/2009 12:11 AM: > Hello > > Man pages for the tail command shows the ability to use the +N option.
No, the man pages mention the ability to use the option -n+N. In fact, because that was so confusing, it has recently been changed. If you were to upgrade to coreutils 8.0, you'd see this instead: -n, --lines=K output the last K lines, instead of the last 10; or use -n +K to output lines starting with the Kth to try to reduce the confusion between the option (-n) and the argument to the option (+K). > Is this a bug? No. And it is a FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkr6tacACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBmVQCfcnhDNfwVaDc3YO7Y2ky0WVUf ZIQAnREALS8rnmCkDNJM7JSvjc4vhOz+ =gcyd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----