Re: tail with options

[Jim Meyering]

nitrosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| sorry if I m wrong but I can-t get tail
| working with BOTH options -q (for avoiding headers)
| and -number (for having number lines instead of 10).
|
| Each option works fine separately.

Don't use the obsolescent -NUMBER style of option.
Do this instead:

  tail -n 10 -q file1 file2

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