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:
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.