reopen 471264 thanks On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:23:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:13:59AM +1000, you wrote: > > If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a > > ‘+’, print beginning with the Nth item > > from the start of each file, otherwise, print the last N items in > > the file. N may have a multiplier > > suffix: b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, GB > > 1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, and so > > on for T, P, E, Z, Y. > > > >Yet tail +N does not work. > > Try tail -n +N > >
Sure, but my point is the documentation is saying something completely different, and incorrect. regards Andrew
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