[RLUG] Re: quick question

[Grant Kelly]

`tail +N filename` works just fine for me on Solaris 9, Debian, and RHEL 4

On 6/30/06, Sebastian Smith <ssmith at cse.unr.edu> wrote:
> That is weird.  What version of coreutils are you running?  What distro?
>
> - Sebastian
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Jeff Shippen wrote:
>
> > 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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