>> 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
Ah, I was confused since 'tail -5' still works, but: > This is a side affect of the change to the newer POSIX standard. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails This explains it. Cheers! Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d -- 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
