Bug 455830
| Summary: | tail does not accept +N option | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Need Real Name <allenlorenz> |
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Ondrej Vasik <ovasik> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | twaugh |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-07-18 07:34:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Thanks for report, however you are wrong - this works unlike with upstream under other distribution of Linux. Additionally - man pages are not relevant documentation for coreutils - as you can see on every single man page that you should use info pages. You can read more about that change of behaviour at upstream faq ( http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails ). Restoration of old (it is against latest POSIX specifications) is possible with setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in environment - you can do that via export or via `alias tail="_POSIX2_VERSION=199209 tail"`. Closing NOTABUG. |
Description of problem: The tail program does not process the +N option. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): The tail program given a +N option (i.e. tail +5 file ), should print out the contents of file starting from line 5. This works under other distrubtion of linux, and is correctly documented in the man page. How reproducible: always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. tail +5 file 2. 3. Actual results: tail: cannot open `+5' for reading: No such file or directory Expected results: contents of file starting from line 5 Additional info: