tail -n+20 server.log in Solaris?

thomas2004ch · 07-02-2013, 07:14 AM

Hi,

The following command I use in RedHat-Linux

Code:

tail -n+20 server.log

will get error by Solaris as follow

Code:

usage: tail [+/-[n][lbc][f]] [file]
       tail [+/-[n][l][r|f]] [file]

How can I correct it?

druuna · 07-02-2013, 07:24 AM

Have you tried:

Code:

tail -20 server.log

thomas2004ch · 07-02-2013, 07:59 AM

I use the tail +20 server.log now.

Tail -20 is different from tail +20

druuna · 07-02-2013, 08:09 AM

Just remembered something: Which tail executable are you using?

If I recall correctly the /usr/xpg4/bin/tail version has the same options as the linux version.

If that is the case then the following should work:

Code:

/usr/xpg4/bin/tail -n+20 server.log

And in case that doesn't work, you could use sed to produce the same result:

Code:

sed -n '5,$p' server.log