Tail Variants

2008-08-24 Thread Jeremy Wright 
I hope this is the right place to post this question.I'm running Puppy Linux 
4.0 and have run into a problem with their version of tail not supporting the 
--byte option. I have to use -c instead. Is this because it's not a standard 
GNU version of tail? Is there a version of GNU tail that doesn't support the -c 
option? I ask because I want to know if it's safe to switch from the --byte 
option to the -c option in a script and still have it be portable across all 
distributions.Thanks.
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Re: Tail Variants

2008-08-24 Thread Micah Cowan 
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Jeremy Wright wrote:
 I hope this is the right place to post this question.I'm running
 Puppy Linux 4.0 and have run into a problem with their version of
 tail not supporting the --byte option. I have to use -c instead. Is
 this because it's not a standard GNU version of tail? Is there a
 version of GNU tail that doesn't support the -c option? I ask because
 I want to know if it's safe to switch from the --byte option to the
 -c option in a script and still have it be portable across all
 distributions.Thanks. 

Should be pretty portable, -c is POSIX, and, judging from the rationale
section, historical as well.

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