Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Jacques B. wrote:
No, that is the correct syntax. No -n when telling tail to start at
the "N"th line.
tail -n 5
will give you the last five lines
tail +5
will start at the fifth line (according to man pages, so doesn't skip
5 lines - I tested it earlier but didn't pay close enough attention -
not in Linux now so can't test right now) and give you the rest of the
file
Jacques B.
Maybe it is just the version of tail in Fc6, but this is what I get:
$ tail +3 README
tail: cannot open `+3' for reading: No such file or directory
Posix doesn't like +'s as option flags these days, and gnu utilities
don't like updating their man pages. Try
tail -n +3 README
(and info tail)
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