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Marco Atzeri wrote:
> --- Mer 28/10/09, Roland Schwingel  ha scritto:

>> I get an error:
>> tail: cannot open '+3' for reading: No such file or
>> directory.
>>
>> Is this on purpose or an accident?

> probably, the last  
> 
>  $ tail --version
> tail (GNU coreutils) 7.0
> 
> don't accept any more the previous way. 


http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails

    cheers,
      DaveK

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