From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: [PATCH] tail -n not supported in all OSs Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:37:42 +0200 Message-ID: <878x62dcdl.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> References: <1192553837-18302-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 16 22:37:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhtAr-0000cn-Vc for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:37:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760411AbXJPUhr (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:37:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752305AbXJPUhr (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:37:47 -0400 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:4584 "EHLO mail.enyo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965337AbXJPUhq (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:37:46 -0400 Received: from deneb.vpn.enyo.de ([212.9.189.177] helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp id 1IhtAd-0001pK-Vz for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:37:44 +0200 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IhtAc-00066V-Po for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:37:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1192553837-18302-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net> (Jari Aalto's message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:57:14 +0300") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: * 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?