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Re: tail is missing the -N option like head has
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: tail is missing the -N option like head has |
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Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:00:10 -0400 |
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Krieg <address@hidden> wrote:
> you can do 'head -N blah' and the '-' will reverse the meaning of the N.
I guess you mean "head -n -<N> blah".
> tail should have the same option but there is no '-' support.
It's there, but it's spelled differently. "tail -n +42" will print
everything from line 42 to the end.
paul