On Sep 4, 2008, at 4:34 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I guess the BSD one. http://www.ss64.com/bash/tail.html -COUNT +COUNT This option is only recognized if it is specified first. COUNT is a decimal number optionally followed by a size letter (`b', `k', `m') as in `-c', or `l' to mean count by lines, or other option letters (`cfqv'). If there is more standard syntax for that, feel free to change it.
thanks for the link; i still don't understand what it is supposed to be doing (ah, my bad english!), but tests on OSX seem to indicate, that "tail +2" will display everything _but_ the first line. is this the behaviour you intended?
fgamrd IOhannes
Honestly, I don't remember why, but it did work.
.hc
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