Re: Missing "tail" feature, bug?

2004-08-13 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
>From the documentation for coreutils: ,[ (coreutils)tail invocation ] |On older systems, `tail' supports an obsolete option | `-COUNTOPTIONS', which is recognized only if it is specified first. | COUNT is a decimal number optionally followed by a size letter (`b', | `k', `m') as in `-c',

Missing "tail" feature, bug?

2004-08-13 Thread Robert Menzel
Hi, I'm using tail version "tail (coreutils) 5.2.1" and i can't use # tail +2 foo anymore. # tail -n+2 foo is ok. The "+n" Option seems to be a not documented feature of older tail version, but it seems to be used quite often in the "demoscene". People in the scene try to code a program with gr