ajai at bway
Nov 9, 2004, 8:10 AM
Post #4 of 8
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Knowles Burrell wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:38:03 +0100, Peter van Eck
> <peter [at] vaneckonline> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Be aware that in the latest release of coreutils (5.2.1) the new
> > versions of chown and tail , the ones I've used sofar, have
> > implemented major changes for syntax use ...
> > example : tail +2 < filename> does no longer work .
> > shell scripts will fall over on that....
> > Peter
> > --
> > gentoo-user [at] gentoo mailing list
> What is the +2 trying to do? Output the last 2 lines? Per the man for
> tail it would now be "tail -2 <filename>"
Historically, + is taken to mean from START of the file so +2 means to
show the first two lines of the file.
shotgun debugging n.
The software equivalent of Easter egging; the making of relatively undirected changes to
the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence. This
almost never works, and usually introduces more bugs.
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