From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:37:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tail -n not supported in all OSs
Message-ID: <878x62dcdl.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <1192553837-18302-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net>

* 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?