On 07/10/10 12:53, Davide Brini wrote: > The "tail +2" syntax is obsolete; probably the recent versions of coreutils > (which 7.4 is not, anyway) dropped support for it.
It's not just obsolete: it's incompatible with POSIX 1003.1-2001, which is why it was dropped a while ago. You can bring back support for "tail +2" by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your environment; this is documented in the coreutils manual. But it's probably better to update those dusty old shell scripts to use the POSIX-specified syntax.
