4 Feb
2008
4 Feb
'08
10:14 p.m.
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.