On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:57:14PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > > SunOS/Solaris tail(1) does not support option '-n'. The > following patches change occurrances of: > > tail -n <N> > > to > > tail <N> POSIX.2 guarantees that "tail -n 2" works. "Tail -<N>" is considered obsolete. Unfortunately Solaris requires you to use /usr/xpg4/bin/tail if you want a POSIX.2 compliant header file. The /usr/bin/tail is designed for System V R3 compliance (i.e., from a full two decades ago; SVR3 was released in 1987), and is due to Sun's vow to Backwards Compatible Forever. See "man 5 standards" on a Solaris box to see how your PATH variable has to be set if you want something which is compatible with modern Unix/Linux common usage. - Ted - 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
