[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Would it be possible to add the working of this sort of usage: > tail +2
I'd rather not, since POSIX currently requires that it be equivalent to "tail ./+2". The man page is supposed to be short, and I'd rather that it didn't confuse people by documenting obsolete and nonportable usage. You can use "tail -n +2" on modern hosts (i.e., hosts conforming to POSIX.2-1992 and later), and "sed 1d" if your script needs to be portable to ancient and nonstandard programs like Solaris /usr/bin/tail where the implementation predates the 1992 standard. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
