On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 08:28 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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 Yes, the manpage is not up-to-date, however 'info tail' is. The new behaviour is standard compliant, to revert to the previous behaviour you can also set the environment variable _POSIX2_VERSION=199209. -- Gérard Milmeister Langackerstrasse 49 CH-8057 Zürich
