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tail bug?
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Eric Blake |
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tail bug? |
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Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:41:37 -0600 |
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$ echo abc | tail -c +1
tail: cannot open `+1' for reading: No such file or directory
$ echo abc | tail -c+1
abc
$ tail --version | head -n1
tail (GNU coreutils) 7.6
Shouldn't -c behave the same, whether or not there is a space before the
count argument?
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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