Turns out some shells are evil, and it was a failure in the system telling me the correct number of lines (this isn't an Ubuntu SSH client into the server)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to coreutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604511 Title: `tail -n N` no longer functions, prints all data in specified files instead of only the last N records Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: While running nginx install/upgrade tests, I was trying to get the last 10 lines of the /var/log/apt/history.log file. Naturally, I was trying to use 'tail' for this: tail -n 10 /var/log/apt/history.log Instead of only getting the last 10 lines of the file, I get the entire file spit out to me, as if I used 'cat' instead of 'tail'. This would appear to be a MAJOR problem if tail no longer functions as it should. This is on a fully-updated 16.10 server, by the way, so all the updates from the 'yakkety' repository are pulled in. ------ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: coreutils 8.25-2ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.2-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jul 19 13:39:31 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-14 (65 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160514) ProcEnviron: TERM=linux PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: coreutils UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1604511/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
