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Coretutils tail command no longer correctly accepting +2 as a parameter
From: |
Bruce Baxter |
Subject: |
Coretutils tail command no longer correctly accepting +2 as a parameter |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:42:20 -0700 |
The info documentation describes the long-standing "start from the top
and start with the nth line as output" parameter +n.
The GNU coreutils version 5.97 (included with Fedora Core 5 in RPM
coreutils-5.97-1.2) returns an error, for example:
tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory
The GNU coreutils version 5.2.1 (included with Fedora Core 4 in RPM
coreutils-5.2.1-48.1) behaves correctly and starts it's output with the
second line of the file specified for processing.
Workaround: The older version operates correctly on the affected
system(s) when simply copied to /usr/bin/tail.
- Coretutils tail command no longer correctly accepting +2 as a parameter,
Bruce Baxter <=