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and subject line Re: Bug#471264: Man page says one thing, binary does another
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regarding coreutils: tail +N doesn't work
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Package: coreutils
Version: 6.10-3
Severity: normal
Hi guys,
I think this little session says it all:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat > dummy <<EOF
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> EOF
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail -3 dummy
4
5
6
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail --lines=+3 dummy
3
4
5
6
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail +3 dummy
tail: cannot open `+3' for reading: No such file or directory
==> dummy <==
1
2
3
4
5
6
That is, +3 is treated as a file-name instead of as --lines=+3,
like it always had, and like the docs still say it should.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.45-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 2.0.35-1 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:13:59AM +1000, you wrote:
If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a ‘+’,
print beginning with the Nth item
from the start of each file, otherwise, print the last N items in the
file. N may have a multiplier
suffix: b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, GB
1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, and so
on for T, P, E, Z, Y.
Yet tail +N does not work.
Try tail -n +N
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