Subject: Re: [PATCH] tail -n not supported in all OSs

From: David Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:12:06 -0700

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:57:14PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>SunOS/Solaris tail(1) does not support option '-n'. The
>following patches change occurrances of:
>
>   tail -n <N>
>
>to
>
>   tail <N>

On Linux, I get

   tail: cannot open `1' for reading: No such file or directory

Did you want

   tail -<N>

David