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 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. tail +2 2. 3. 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:
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
Alternatively, use the current syntax: tail -n +2