Re: Bug in tail program in Fedora Core 6

[Kim]

Oh yes, the output is:

head: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory

Cheers,
Kim

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 10:44:57PM +0000, Kim wrote:
> It appears as if the tail +n functionality has disappeared. The info tail 
> output still states that
> something like tail +2 should output from the second line onwards, as does 
> man tail.
> 
> This functionality has been in tail on unixes from days of old (> 20 years) 
> and I for one have written many
> scripts that use this, such as:
> 
> ls -l | tail +2
> 
> in order to get rid of the first line with the Total number of files.
> 
> Kim