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From:	"Krisztian Fekete" <fkr0 AT mailbox DOT hu>
Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:22:58 +0200
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Subject:	bug: tail -c stopped working
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Hi,

GNU tail has an option to output the last n bytes:

$ tail --help
...
  -c, --bytes=N            output the last N bytes
...

In the current coreutils version (5.3.0-3) the short option version
stopped working:

$ tail -c 30
tail: cannot open `30' for reading: No such file or directory

while
$ tail --bytes=30
still works.

Best regards,

Krisztian Fekete

Krisztian





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