[CentOS] Re: tail command
Scott McClanahan
scott.mcclanahan at trnswrks.com
Mon Feb 4 22:14:05 UTC 2008
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.
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