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bug#7753: Bug in tail command
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From: |
Bob Proulx |
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Subject: |
bug#7753: Bug in tail command |
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Date: |
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:00:13 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Paul Eggert wrote:
> Kielbasiewicz, Peter wrote:
> > df | tail -lines +2 works OK
> >
> > I support HP-UX, Redhat and Ubuntu systems and unfortunately
> > the -lines option does not work on my legacy HP-UX systems.
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> This should work, on all systems conforming to POSIX
> (which surely HP-UX does):
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> df | tail -n +2
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> "tail +2" isn't portable.
Additional information is available in the FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails
Bob