Re: tail -1 * has unexpected output

[Bob Proulx]

address@hidden wrote:
> tail: invalid option -- 1

What version of tail are you using?

  tail --version

If it is older than 5.90 please upgrade.  Your report implies that you
are probably running 5.2.1 from 2004.  This behavior was changed in
coreutils 5.90 in 2005.  The current stable release version is 6.10.

Here is the latest release information:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2008-01/msg00001.html

Bob