Re: [patch] documentation bug in tail: no mention of -n +N syntax

[Paul Eggert]

Evan Hunt <address@hidden> writes:

> In trying to figure out how to fix my script, I checked "tail --help" and
> "man tail", and there was no mention of the fact that tail even *has* this
> ability anymore.

It should be later on the help.  Coreutils 6.7 "tail --help" says:

    -n, --lines=N            output the last N lines, instead of the last 10
    ...

  If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a `+',
  print beginning with the Nth item from the start of each file, otherwise,
  print the last N items in the file.