Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:40:26AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > $ tail -10 /var/log/messages > [ 10 lines of output ] > $ tail -10 /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog > tail: invalid option -- 1 > Try `tail --help' for more information.
Yes, that is hateful, but I am forced to use enough boxen w/ GNU tail (and head) that I have gotten in to the habit of using "tail -n 10" instead of the traditional "tail -10". FreeBSD's tail also supports the "-n <NN>" notation, so I can use one consistent (if cumbersome) notation. -- Timothy Knox <mailto:[email protected]> 90% of everything is crud. And for software the other 10% is worse. -- Nicholas Clark
