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From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
To: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tail -n not supported in all OSs
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:12:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071016171206.GA13715@old.davidb.org> (raw)
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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-16 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-16 16:57 [PATCH] tail -n not supported in all OSs Jari Aalto
2007-10-16 16:57 ` [PATCH] git-am.sh: Remove option -n from tail Jari Aalto
2007-10-16 16:57   ` [PATCH] git-commit.sh: " Jari Aalto
2007-10-16 16:57     ` [PATCH] git-rebase--interactive.sh: " Jari Aalto
2007-10-16 17:18     ` [PATCH] git-commit.sh: " Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-16 17:12 ` David Brown [this message]
2007-10-16 17:16 ` [PATCH] tail -n not supported in all OSs YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-10-16 17:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-16 20:37 ` Florian Weimer
2007-10-16 22:06 ` Theodore Tso

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