[CentOS] Re: tail command

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Scott McClanahan wrote:
>
>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.

The default syntax for tail for the last 20 years or so would
be ``tail -83 filename''.

Bill
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