4 Feb
2008
4 Feb
'08
10:58 p.m.
On Feb 4, 2008 2:31 PM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 2/4/2008 2:23 PM Bill Campbell spake the following:
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Scott McClanahan wrote:
The default syntax for tail for the last 20 years or so would be ``tail -83 filename''.
That would be for the LAST 83 lines. The poster wanted to start the tail FROM line 83 to the end.
The 'tail -#' syntax has been deprecated for years. The correct syntax, per the man page, is 'tail -n #' for the last # lines of the file, default 10, and if the # begins with a '+' it means from the #'th line from the front of the file.
There is no mention of the 'tail -#' syntax in the man page.
mhr