[RLUG] Re: quick question

[Jeff Shippen]

Strange, my system works with +x as the only option, and in every 
experience i have, it's worked that way (incl unix).
Maybe we can all do a test with it and see what the deal is - I've 
attached a text file with lines counting to 30 for testing purposes, but 
you can do whatever you want with it ;-)

Jeff

Sebastian Smith wrote:
> I believe that the '+' has to be used in conjunction with an option, 
> for example:
>
> $ tail -n +300 big_file.txt
>
> If you just issue "+x" as an option (where 'x' is an integer) it 
> attempts to open the file named "+x"... at least on my system it does.
>
> - Sebastian
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