tail man entry for +

2006-06-19 Thread John Lange
Do you think it would be possible to add an entry to the tail man that indicates you can use the + sign to start reading X number of lines from the beginning. I don't understand what the difference between 'info tail' and 'man tail' or why there are 2 different types of documentation? Regards,

Re: tail man entry for +

2006-06-19 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, John Lange wrote: Do you think it would be possible to add an entry to the tail man that indicates you can use the + sign to start reading X number of lines from the beginning. It already has. On my system, the manpage for tail includes: If the first character of N (the