[CentOS] Re: tail command

[Scott Silva]

on 2/4/2008 2:23 PM Bill Campbell spake the following:
> 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''.
> 
That would be for the LAST 83 lines. The poster wanted to start the tail FROM 
line 83 to the end.

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