On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 12:39 +0200, wwp wrote: > Hello all, > > > since I've installed FC5 (was using FC3 before), many self-installer scripts > fail to install because of tail. They use `tail +123` but the tail version > that comes w/ FC5 only accepts `tail -n +123`. Is that a change in tail's > command-line or a bug in this version? I work around this issue by editing the > scripts and inserting a -n, but would like to know what's the problem here. > Any one? > Well it looks like you got it right. No one bothered to change the man poage but in order to start displaying a file from line 3 you needs to enter: tail -n +3 file -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
