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According to Marvin Simkin on 3/30/2007 4:22 PM:
> $ tail --version
> tail (GNU coreutils) 5.97
You are still due for an upgrade. The latest stable version is 6.9.
At any rate, this is not a bug, but a POSIX conformance issue; and it was
documented in the NEWS for 5.90:
A few usages still have behavior that depends on which POSIX standard is
being conformed to, and portable applications should beware these
problematic usages. These include:
Problematic Standard-conforming replacement, depending on
usage whether you prefer the behavior of:
POSIX 1003.2-1992 POSIX 1003.1-2001
tail +4 tail -n +4 tail ./+4
and it is also mentioned in the manual (info coreutils tail), along with
the _POSIX2_VERSION environment variable which you can set to choose which
version of POSIX you want to obey.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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