I'm running 5.94.
Apparently Tim was right, using +x as an option is deprecated and will be
removed in future coreutil packages. In the future you will have to use
"-n +x". You can also use "-c +x", etc.
- Sebastian
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Jeff Shippen wrote:
coreutils? I have no such command. I'm running Suse 10.1
ah wait, tail --version mentions coreutils
tail (GNU coreutils) 5.93
Jeff
Sebastian Smith 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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