Re: Tail Variants

[Micah Cowan]

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Jeremy Wright wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to post this question.I'm running
> Puppy Linux 4.0 and have run into a problem with their version of
> tail not supporting the --byte option. I have to use -c instead. Is
> this because it's not a standard GNU version of tail? Is there a
> version of GNU tail that doesn't support the -c option? I ask because
> I want to know if it's safe to switch from the --byte option to the
> -c option in a script and still have it be portable across all
> distributions.Thanks. 

Should be pretty portable, -c is POSIX, and, judging from the rationale
section, historical as well.

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Micah J. Cowan
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