From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:57:14 GMT
Subject: [PATCH] tail -n not supported in all OSs
Message-ID: <1192553837-18302-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net>


SunOS/Solaris tail(1) does not support option '-n'. The
following patches change occurrances of:

   tail -n <N>

to

   tail <N>

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REFERENCES:

User Commands                                             TAIL(1)
                        
NAME
     tail - output the last part of files

SYNOPSIS
     tail [OPTION]... [FILE]...

- - -

$ 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]