On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jeremy Stephens wrote:
> I found myself needing to run awk on all the lines of a text file
> except the first one. So I look at some man pages. It turns out
> that head will accept negative numbers, but tail won't. At least in
> my Ubuntu Gutsy installation it won't.
I've long used
tail +2 file | awk '...'
for that sort of thing, but, alas, GNU tail now warns
tail: Warning: "+number" syntax is deprecated, please use "-n +number"
Of course, that syntax doesn't work with Solaris's default tail. So now I
have to switch based on `uname`. What fun. I really do enjoy rewriting
scripts that have worked for 20 years.
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Andy Dougherty dough...@lafayette.edu
