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Re: Bug in tail program in Fedora Core 6
From: |
Kim |
Subject: |
Re: Bug in tail program in Fedora Core 6 |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:45:41 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.2.2i |
Oh yes, the output is:
head: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory
Cheers,
Kim
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 10:44:57PM +0000, Kim wrote:
> It appears as if the tail +n functionality has disappeared. The info tail
> output still states that
> something like tail +2 should output from the second line onwards, as does
> man tail.
>
> This functionality has been in tail on unixes from days of old (> 20 years)
> and I for one have written many
> scripts that use this, such as:
>
> ls -l | tail +2
>
> in order to get rid of the first line with the Total number of files.
>
> Kim