It is incorrect anyway. "tail -c4" doesn't work on Solaris, so that it is not OK for portable scripts:
"portable" means "standards compliant", not "will work with any ancient syntax ever promulgated by any vendor". To get portable behavior on solaris you need to run from /usr/xpg4/bin rather than /usr/bin; I don't have a solaris system handy to check but I'd guess that the standard syntax would work with /usr/xpg4/bin/tail.
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