[CentOS] Re: tail command

[Scott McClanahan]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:09 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 2/4/2008 1:56 PM Scott McClanahan spake the following:
> > In centos 4 we used tail in the following way:
> > 
> > tail +83 file
> > 
> > That would tail the contents of the file starting at line 83.  In centos
> > 5 that same command complains about the file +83 not being found.  It
> > appears that the + option in tail doesn't work the same way in centos 5.
> > Is there another easy way to grab the contents of a file starting at a
> > certain line number and beyond.
> I think it would be tail -n +83 file

Ahh, yes.  Because it can be a line count or byte count.  The -n wasn't
necessary in the old coreutils.  Thanks alot.