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Re: Tail bug (or feature?)
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Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: Tail bug (or feature?) |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:46:01 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
Peter S. Vasilyev wrote:
> I'm using GNU utils for win32 and I have a problem.
Thanks for taking the time to report a problem. But when reporting
problems please say what version of the program you are using.
Frequently it is found that the program isn't even one of the ones
maintained here!
tail --version
> File mode12.dat contains 10576 lines:
>
> D:>wc mode12.dat
> 10576 81512 1061137 mode12.dat
>
> D:>tail -n=10570 mode12.dat > 12
> C:\WINNT\System32\tail.EXE: =10570: invalid number of lines
>
> Why?
You have used an incorrect syntax. The '=' is bogus there. Use one
of these instead.
tail -n 10570 mode12.dat > 12
tail -n10570 mode12.dat > 12
tail --lines=10570 mode12.dat > 12
Bob