SunOS/Solaris tail(1) does not support option '-n'. The following patches change occurrances of: tail -n <N> to tail <N> --------------------------------------------------------------------- REFERENCES: User Commands TAIL(1) NAME tail - output the last part of files SYNOPSIS tail [OPTION]... [FILE]... - - - $ uname -a SunOS host 5.9 Generic_118558-35 sun4u sparc SUNW,Serverblade1 $ echo | tail -n 1 usage: tail [+/-[n][lbc][f]] [file] tail [+/-[n][l][r|f]] [file] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html