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Subject:	1.7.1: /usrb/bin/tail.exe
Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:40:36 +0100
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From:	"Peter Koch" <Peter DOT Koch AT prosozial DOT de>
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Hi!

Running 1.7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 some of my shell scripts stopped
working.

The culprint is tail.exe

1. tail +N does not work anymore. Obsolete? How can i re-enable this?
2. tail overwrites redirected files!

$ echo "1" > a
$ echo "22" >> a
$ echo "333" >> a
$ cat a
1
22
333
echo "x" > x
$ tail -1 a >> x
$ cat x
333

Notice, that the first line of x (containg one x) is gone!

Ciao

Peter

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