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Date: | Sun, 6 Jun 1999 11:06:37 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: tail -n vs tail --lines=n |
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Jeff Williams wrote: > % tail -8 foo.bar > c:/djgpp/bin/tail.exe: invalid option -- 8 > Try `c:/djgpp/bin/tail.exe --help' for more information. I cannot reproduce this, -8 works for me. Is it possible that you have `tail' aliased to something, and the alias is the cause of the problem?
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