tail +2 fix

Gary Thomas gary@mlbassoc.com
Thu Apr 22 14:59:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 08:20, Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> with coreutils 5.2 tail chokes on line counts given without explicit -n
> in front of it and ecos libs do not compile.
> 
> 
> so could somebody please run the attached script in the packages dir?
> 
> The patch would be too long and boring to post here as there are 52 cdl 
> files using the construct
> 
> all changes are like this one
> 
> -        @tail +2 vectors.tmp >> $(notdir $@).deps
> +        @tail -n +2 vectors.tmp >> $(notdir $@).deps

Does this new syntax work with all older versions of 'tail'?

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates



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