Re: Problem with tail

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden writes:

> $ tail --version
> tail (textutils) 2.0.21

That's a fairly old version.  I have no problem with the coreutils 5.0
tail on Debian:

   22-mae $ tail -n 1 big
   bar
   23-mae $ ls -l big
   -rw-rw-r--    1 eggert   eggert   4294967363 2003-08-11 18:50 big
   24-mae $ uname -a
   Linux mae 2.4.21-pre3-40828c #1 Tue Jan 7 17:50:25 PST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
   25-mae $ tail --version | sed 1q
   tail (coreutils) 5.0

Perhaps all you need to do is update coreutils.  Also, it's possible
that it's a problem with a cygwin library somewhere.