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

From: Florian Weimer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:37:42 +0200

* Jari Aalto:

> $ uname -a
> SunOS host 5.9 Generic_118558-35 sun4u sparc SUNW,Serverblade1
>
> $ echo | tail -n 1
>
> usage: tail [+/-[n][lbc][f]] [file]
>        tail [+/-[n][l][r|f]] [file]                     

What about /usr/xpg4/bin/tail?  Why aren't you using that?