[CentOS] Re: tail command

[Scott Silva]

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

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