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Re: FW: +N option in tail command
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Eric Blake |
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Re: FW: +N option in tail command |
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:01:27 -0700 |
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According to נחשון ישורון/Nachshon Yeshurun on 11/11/2009 12:11 AM:
> Hello
>
> Man pages for the tail command shows the ability to use the +N option.
No, the man pages mention the ability to use the option -n+N.
In fact, because that was so confusing, it has recently been changed. If
you were to upgrade to coreutils 8.0, you'd see this instead:
-n, --lines=K output the last K lines, instead of the last 10;
or use -n +K to output lines starting with the Kth
to try to reduce the confusion between the option (-n) and the argument to
the option (+K).
> Is this a bug?
No. And it is a FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails
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