$ tail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 8.5 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, and Jim Meyering. $ $ tail -f -1 some.log tail: option used in invalid context -- 1 $ On any other system I have used the -NUM option can be used with the -f option to specify how many lines of the file as-is to print before starting to follow it for updates. With this version of tail, it always prints ten lines and then starts the follow. Elijah
