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tail weirdness


From: Igor Rivin
Subject: tail weirdness
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:32:27 -0500

On my Fedora core 6 system, this fails:

address@hidden tmp]$ tail +2 dog
tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory
==> dog <==
dfsdf
sdfdsfds
dfd
dfsdf
adsfsdf


tail --version shows:

address@hidden tmp]$ tail --version
tail (GNU coreutils) 5.97
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, and Jim Meyering.


The effect can, of course, be gotten by tail --lines=+2 dog,
but I do not need to tell you that this is a horrible incompatible change (which, for me, breaks about 10% of my scripts). Perhaps this is some transient lossage, and there is a better/newer version out there?





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