On 08/15/14 19:40, Alex Jurkiewicz wrote: > On 16 August 2014 12:00, Chris Moore wrote: > You mean $((X+1)), not $(X+1), right? > > In this case the values are hardcoded, so Colin was just warning about the > off-by-one counting difference between these two (functionally identical) > commands: > head -n -31 > tail -n +32
You're both right: I was warning that the hard-coded value would need to be adjusted due to the off-by-one difference between head and tail, but I had indeed intended to write it in valid shell syntax. ;-) -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
