On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 16:01 +0200, wwp wrote: > Hello Gérard, > > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:18:56 +0200 Gérard Milmeister <gemi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > Thanks for the clarification and for the tip :-). Except on my FC5 system info tail has the same error as man tail. Any explanations out there? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
