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According to Chris Sutcliffe on 3/2/2010 8:01 PM:
>> The "tail +4" commands does not work as advertised.  When given such com=
mand
>> (advertised in man command), it complains it can't open the file.  With =
the
>> command "tail +5 -", it produces the desired output with some junk on
>> standard output.
>=20
> As per the tail manpage:
>=20
>        -n, --lines=3DN
>               output the last N lines, instead of the last 10; or use
> +N to output lines starting with the Nth
>=20
> Note that the +N notation is specific to --lines=3D, not the '-n'
> shorthand.

Wrong - the +N notation also works with -n:

ps -a | tail -n +5

--=20
Eric Blake   eblake AT redhat DOT com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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