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R: Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail


--- Mer 28/10/09, Roland Schwingel  ha scritto:

> Hi...
> 
> At present I am using cygwin 1.5 mainly, but I have also
> started to migrate over to 1.7. Everything works quite well,
> but I encountered a problem with the tail command. Obviously
> the + syntax does no longer work in 1.7
> 
> In 1.5 when I call eg.
> tail +3 /path/to/some/file
> 
> I get the whole file printed starting with line 3 (the
> first 2 lines are omitted). With cygwin 1.7 this does no
> longer work.
> I get an error:
> tail: cannot open '+3' for reading: No such file or
> directory.
> 
> Is this on purpose or an accident?

the manual says
tail -N +3 /path/to/some/file

probably, the last  

 $ tail --version
tail (GNU coreutils) 7.0

don't accept any more the previous way. 
(how did you handle a file called +3 ?)

> 
> Roland
> 
> 

Marco




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