Christophe LYON wrote:
I am using coreutils-7.2, and I have just reproduced the issue with
7.3, under Linux RHEL 3 and 4.
Also with Fedora 10's 6.12 package. The behavior change I think may
have been in 6.0 (it is probably in the changelog).
I do remember that change, but I also thought that it had been reverted
a few releases later.
-<number> seems to work presently, +<number> doesn't.
Curiously, it works OK under Solaris 8.
Are you talking about GNU coreutils here, or the Solaris tail? If the
behavior is different for GNU coreutils, that is probably a bug.
Yes, GNU coreutils built under Solaris.
Hmm. That sounds suspiciously like a bug, then. I don't think the
behavior should be different across platforms. (Time for one of the
maintainers to chime in...)
But 'man 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
does it mean that '-n' is mandatory before a number? I interpreted it as
'-number'.
I read it as, yes, -n is still required (but agree it isn't as clear as
it might be), especially given the blurb in the info doc. IOW I read
'+N' as replacing 'N', not as replacing '-n N' or '--lines=N'.
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