Bug 174785
| Summary: | Tail does not understand "+2" as an option | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Anthony Thyssen <anthony> |
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-12-02 09:26:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051118 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.rc3 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: The use of a command such as tail +2 file has been a standard part of UNIX from before I graduated (1988!) This is the first time I have ever see the above option report... tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory This is not good, I know of hundreds, if not thousands of UNXI shells scripts that rely on tail +2 printing a file from the second line onward. EG: from the FC5 manual... If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a â+â, print beginning with the Nth item from the start of each file This includes the use of just + instead of -+2 which also failes to work! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-5.93-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. tail +2 .xsession-errors 2. 3. Actual Results: tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory followed by a filename header, and the last ten lines of the file! Expected Results: no header (only one filename given. all the lines of the file except the first (eg line N onward) Additional info: The use of +N as a option for tail has been present since the 1970's! It must be provided for compatability. This could cause sever problems as it impairs the working of existing shell scripts.