Re: Re: tail command

[MHR <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 4, 2008 2:31 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> on 2/4/2008 2:23 PM Bill Campbell spake the following:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Scott McClanahan wrote:
> >
> > The default syntax for tail for the last 20 years or so would
> > be ``tail -83 filename''.
> >
> That would be for the LAST 83 lines. The poster wanted to start the tail FROM
> line 83 to the end.
>

The 'tail -#' syntax has been deprecated for years.  The correct
syntax, per the man page, is 'tail -n #' for the last # lines of the
file, default 10, and if the # begins with a '+' it means from the
#'th line from the front of the file.

There is no mention of the 'tail -#' syntax in the man page.

mhr
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