Hi, On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > It's so frustrating when newer versions of tools break working builds... tail > +10 now needs to be tail --lines=+10 is the latest gotcha!
tail -n 10 is a touch more succinct. Thankfully, it is consistant to the head command, where -n (or --lines) work the same way. Derek. p.s - is it a shell thing, but when from the bash shell I do tail --lines=+10 some_file I get heaps of output. The man for tail (5.93) suggests that tail --lines=10 some_file is more correct. Or have you got tail version 6.x ? -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +64 3 365 6485 Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
