[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
>
> >Also noted in passing, while some implementations of 'tail' have a -b
> >option, a block can be 512 or 1024 bytes, making it a bit
> >non-deterministic. I don't have a POSIX.1 here, but I have to feel that
> >the count by lines and bytes are more likely to produce postable
> >results. Since implementations of tail predate POSIX, standard and
> >portable are not the same thing, so let's not reopen a discussion of
> >that.
>
> All implementations I know use 512 byte. You need it when you like to go back more
> then 64kB.
I didn't realize the standard required that, on Linux or AIX you just use the
"c" option to get what you would like:
deathstar:davidsen> zcat /tmp/lp2/LocalPosts.199912.gz | tail -150000c | wc -c
150000
I'm sure there's some limit to characters, but I haven't hit it yet.
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