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List: coreutils-bug
Subject: bug#7753: Bug in tail command
From: Bob Proulx <bob () proulx ! com>
Date: 2010-12-29 20:00:13
Message-ID: 20101229200013.GA15052 () hysteria ! proulx ! com
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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.
>
> This should work, on all systems conforming to POSIX
> (which surely HP-UX does):
>
> df | tail -n +2
>
> "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
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