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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080204/aa6e308c/attachment-0005.sig>