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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:37:20 +0100
From: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam AT online DOT no>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: RE: tail
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Paul-Kenji Cahier <pkc AT F1-Photo DOT com> wrote:

>I'm experiencing trouble with tail
>
>i want to do a tail +2 but it wont be recognized
>tail --version wont give any output either
>
>any idea?

The first thing to do when a command behaves differently
than expected is to see what it is, so try "which tail".
Is it /usr/bin/tail?

Peter

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