Re: FW: +N option in tail command

[Eric Blake]

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According to נחשון ישורון/Nachshon Yeshurun on 11/11/2009 12:11 AM:
> Hello
> 
> Man pages for the tail command shows the ability to use the +N option.

No, the man pages mention the ability to use the option -n+N.

In fact, because that was so confusing, it has recently been changed.  If
you were to upgrade to coreutils 8.0, you'd see this instead:

  -n, --lines=K            output the last K lines, instead of the last 10;
                           or use -n +K to output lines starting with the Kth

to try to reduce the confusion between the option (-n) and the argument to
the option (+K).

> Is this a bug?

No.  And it is a FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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