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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
It's "tail -n +3" now.
Evan Hunt
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BEFORE (correct)
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$ echo "1,2,3,4,5" | tr ',' "\012" | tail +3
3
4
5
$ tail --version
tail (coreutils) 4.5.3
...
$ uname -a
Linux ... 2.4.21-20.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 20:46:40 EDT 2004 i686 i686
