on 2/4/2008 2:23 PM Bill Campbell spake the following:
That would be for the LAST 83 lines. The poster wanted to start the tail FROM line 83 to the end.On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Scott McClanahan wrote:On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:09 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:on 2/4/2008 1:56 PM Scott McClanahan spake the following:In centos 4 we used tail in the following way: tail +83 file That would tail the contents of the file starting at line 83. In centos 5 that same command complains about the file +83 not being found. It appears that the + option in tail doesn't work the same way in centos 5. Is there another easy way to grab the contents of a file starting at a certain line number and beyond.I think it would be tail -n +83 fileAhh, yes. Because it can be a line count or byte count. The -n wasn't necessary in the old coreutils. Thanks alot.The default syntax for tail for the last 20 years or so would be ``tail -83 filename''.
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