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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:27:41 -0500
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Subject: Re: "tail" command does not work as advertised
From: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d AT gmail DOT com>
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>> Note that the +N notation is specific to --lines=, not the '-n'
>> shorthand.
>
> Wrong - the +N notation also works with -n:
>
> ps -a | tail -n +5

Ah, I was confused since 'tail -5' still works, but:

> This is a side affect of the change to the newer POSIX standard.
>  http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails

This explains it.

Cheers!

Chris

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