`tail +N filename` works just fine for me on Solaris 9, Debian, and RHEL 4
On 6/30/06, Sebastian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That is weird. What version of coreutils are you running? What distro? - Sebastian On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Jeff Shippen wrote: > Strange, my system works with +x as the only option, and in every experience > i have, it's worked that way (incl unix). > Maybe we can all do a test with it and see what the deal is - I've attached a > text file with lines counting to 30 for testing purposes, but you can do > whatever you want with it ;-) > > Jeff > > Sebastian Smith wrote: >> I believe that the '+' has to be used in conjunction with an option, for >> example: >> >> $ tail -n +300 big_file.txt >> >> If you just issue "+x" as an option (where 'x' is an integer) it attempts >> to open the file named "+x"... at least on my system it does. >> >> - Sebastian > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
_______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
