Re: [CentOS] Re: tail command

2008-02-04 Thread Alex White
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:58:27 -0800 MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > On Feb 4, 2008 2:31 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 2/4/2008 2:23 PM Bill Campbell spake the following: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Scott McClanahan wrote: > > > > > > The default

Re: [CentOS] Re: tail command

2008-02-04 Thread MHR
On Feb 4, 2008 2:31 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 2/4/2008 2:23 PM Bill Campbell spake the following: > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Scott McClanahan wrote: > > > > The default syntax for tail for the last 20 years or so would > > be ``tail -83 filename''. > > > That would be for the

Re: [CentOS] Re: tail command

2008-02-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Scott McClanahan wrote: > >On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:09 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: >> on 2/4/2008 1:56 PM Scott McClanahan spake the following: >> > In centos 4 we used tail in the following way: >> > >> > tail +83 file >> > >> > That would tail the contents of the file starti

Re: [CentOS] Re: tail command

2008-02-04 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:09 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > on 2/4/2008 1:56 PM Scott McClanahan spake the following: > > In centos 4 we used tail in the following way: > > > > tail +83 file > > > > That would tail the contents of the file starting at line 83. In centos > > 5 that same command comp