On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:29:10 +1300 (NZDT)
Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.
> 
...unfortunately it's a different result. The '+' means 'take it as an offset 
from the top of the file', as opposed to the last n lines.

Steve

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