X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:38:58 -0400 From: "Gustavo Seabra" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with 'tail -n *' In-Reply-To: <015901c939d8$b22295e0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <015901c939d8$b22295e0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Dave Korn wrote: > Gustavo Seabra wrote on 29 October 2008 14:33: > >> I just noticed this one thing when using 'tail' in cygwin. For some >> reason, when using a '*' so as to 'tail' multiple files at once, the >> '-n' option to tail doesn't work anymore. > >> $ tail -2 *.dat >> tail: option used in invalid context -- 2 > > The "-NNN" form is an abbreviation for "-n NNN". If you write it out in > full, it works: > > $ tail -n 2 *.dat > OK, I see that now. Thanks. But is there a reason why the abbreviation is not working in cygwin? It works just fine in a different system... Thanks, Gustavo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/