Hi All, I just noticed this one thing when using 'tail' in cygwin. For some reason, when using a '*' so as to 'tail' multiple files at once, the '-n' option to tail doesn't work anymore. Note that I tried without the '-n', and it works just as it should, i.e., 'tail *.dat' actually gives teh last 10 lines of each '.dat' file (I'm not showing this example just to save space). It is only the '-n' option that doesn't work anymore. It works fine on a linux computer we have (tail (coreutils) 5.2.1). See an example below:
$ which tail /usr/bin/tail $ tail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 6.10 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, and Jim Meyering. $ tail -2 am1_avg-ie.dat 5.998 1.5559 -5.3844 -6.0068 6.000 1.5568 -5.3841 -6.0066 $ tail -2 *.dat tail: option used in invalid context -- 2 All the best, Gustavo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
