Bug 193079

Summary: tail +2 doesn't work like it does under FC4
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jason Haar <jhaar>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Jason Haar 2006-05-25 00:09:53 UTC
Description of problem:

coreutils-5.93-7.2 contains tail-5.93, and the man page states that "tail +N" 
should still be a valid command. But it doesn't work anymore (like on older
systems). "tail --lines=+2" does work - but "tail +2" doesn't

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How reproducible:

everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. tail +2
2.
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Actual results:
tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory

Expected results:

to see all of the file except for the first two lines

Additional info:

Comment 1 Hann-Huei Chiou 2006-05-25 01:39:55 UTC
Read the online version of the Release Notes
(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#id2947041).
You can have the old behavior by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your environment

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2006-05-25 08:56:06 UTC
Alternatively, use the current syntax: tail -n +2