According to Chris Sutcliffe on 3/2/2010 8:01 PM: >> The "tail +4" commands does not work as advertised. When given such command >> (advertised in man command), it complains it can't open the file. With the >> command "tail +5 -", it produces the desired output with some junk on >> standard output. > > As per the tail manpage: > > -n, --lines=N > output the last N lines, instead of the last 10; or use > +N to output lines starting with the Nth > > Note that the +N notation is specific to --lines=, not the '-n' > shorthand.
Wrong - the +N notation also works with -n: ps -a | tail -n +5 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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