Jon LaBadie wrote:
> Ben wrote:
> > George Fletcher wrote:
> >> Gold ol' Linux, bad ol' Posix. This time FC5 has broken my shell
> >> scripts by redefining the flags for the 'tail' command. Most notably,
> >> by deleting the second most used flag '+#', used to concatenate a file
> >> beginning at line #.
> >>
> >
>
> Problem is, with respect to FC5's tail, it is POSIX.
>
> Assuming my reading of the man page at opengroup is correct:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/...ties/tail.html
>
> Neither +# nor -# is officially sanctioned.
>
> To get the same affect you need a -n option before the number.
>
> Bleech!!

About 10+ years ago I have been told by our sysadmins that +# and -#
is deprecated (on AIX or HP-UX ?) and should not be used, rather to
switch to the -n option. I continued using the former and never heard
of any problems... - until I read this posting.

Janis