--- Mer 28/10/09, Roland Schwingel ha scritto: > Hi... > > At present I am using cygwin 1.5 mainly, but I have also > started to migrate over to 1.7. Everything works quite well, > but I encountered a problem with the tail command. Obviously > the + syntax does no longer work in 1.7 > > In 1.5 when I call eg. > tail +3 /path/to/some/file > > I get the whole file printed starting with line 3 (the > first 2 lines are omitted). With cygwin 1.7 this does no > longer work. > I get an error: > tail: cannot open '+3' for reading: No such file or > directory. > > Is this on purpose or an accident?
the manual says tail -N +3 /path/to/some/file probably, the last $ tail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 7.0 don't accept any more the previous way. (how did you handle a file called +3 ?) > > Roland > > Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
