`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
>

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