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Re: Bug in tail 5.96 - "+" argument not recognized
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: Bug in tail 5.96 - "+" argument not recognized |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:21:01 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
"Kevin Burtch" <address@hidden> writes:
> Tail version 5.96 (as supplied in Fedora Core 5) has a bug where it
> does not recognize "+" as a command-line argument:
>
> $ tail +4 /etc/hosts
> tail: cannot open `+4' for reading: No such file or directory
>
> This does not comply with the supplied man-page:
>
> If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines)
But the man page does not say that you can use "tail N FILE".
It does say that you can use "tail -n N FILE", which in this
case would be "tail -n +4 /etc/hosts".
For more on the subject, please consult the documentation, e.g.,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_mono/coreutils.html#tail-invocation>.