[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#7753: closed (Bug in tail command)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Bug in tail command Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:56:31 +0100

Hello maintainer,

 

running    tail  +2   on an Ubuntu Box I get the following error:

df | tail +2

tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory

 

df | tail –lines +2 works OK

 

I support HP-UX, Redhat and Ubuntu systems and unfortunately the –lines option does not work on my legacy HP-UX systems.

 

The man page for tail says

       -n, --lines=N

              output the last N lines, instead of the last 10; or  use  +N  to

              output lines starting with the Nth

 

Here is the version of coreutils which I am running:

               

#dpkg -s coreutils

Package: coreutils

Essential: yes

Status: install ok installed

Priority: required

Section: utils

Installed-Size: 12988

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <address@hidden>

Architecture: amd64

Version: 7.4-2ubuntu3

Replaces: mktemp

Pre-Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1), libattr1 (>= 2.4.41-1), libc6 (>= 2.11), libselinux1 (>= 1.32)

 

regards

  Peter

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> On 12/28/2010 10:56 PM, Kielbasiewicz, Peter wrote:
> > df | tail -lines +2 works OK
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> > I support HP-UX, Redhat and Ubuntu systems and unfortunately
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> This should work, on all systems conforming to POSIX
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> df | tail -n +2
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> "tail +2" isn't portable.
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