Bug 217174

Summary: tail stopped taking +N argument
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Pete Zaitcev 2006-11-24 17:01:21 UTC 
Description of problem:

tail +3 fails with:
tail: cannot open `+3' for reading: No such file or directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

coreutils-5.97-14.fc7

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "tail +3 /etc/hosts"
  
Actual results:

tail does not skip 3 lines, prints error message

Expected results:

tail should skip 3 lines

Additional info:

This breaks Dell BIOS update.

Also, the --help message contains this information:

If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a `+',
print beginning with the Nth item from the start of each file, otherwise,
print the last N items in the file.  N may have a multiplier suffix:
b 512, k 1024, m 1024*1024.
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2006-11-24 18:38:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173431 ***