From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Description of problem: When doing: # tail +n 2 su.log tail: cannot open `+n' for reading: No such file or directory tail: cannot open `2' for reading: No such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-5.96-1.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. do the tail command with option +N 2. 3. Actual Results: tail does not work Expected Results: Refere to man pages: 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. Additional info: On FedoaraCore 4 with coreutils-5.2.1-48 -> tail works! also AdvancedServer, Enterprise, HPUX 10.20-> 11.23, Sun, AIX -> tail works with same options... Nearby, sort does also have a problem with the parameters! -> All oure administrative scripts and tools fails on FC5!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203535 ***
Good morning, i mean of course: # tail +2 su.log e.g.: # uname -a HP-UX rbgs420x B.11.11 U 9000/800 1798937691 unlimited-user license rooteieh:root @ IgniteSrv on rbgs420x from RBG0J26C.ww011.siemens.net: 1812 [ /tmp ] # tail +2 vginfo.txt e.g. # tail +2 su.log tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory
which is now the dublicate bug an what the real? could you please mark one as GOOD - WORKING ONE? thanks!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173431 ***