On 10/30/2006, "Derek Smithies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Steve Holdoway wrote

>> It's so frustrating when newer versions of tools break working builds... t
ail +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.



This change (the requirement for -n) is AFAIK quite old now.

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