From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:12:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tail -n not supported in all OSs
Message-ID: <20071016171206.GA13715@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <1192553837-18302-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net>

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