tail
2007-12-25 10:13:00
Thanks to all who replied,the winning answer came from
Tim Carlson [tim@santafe.edu].
His Answer below.
SunOS/Solaris tail is broken.. Try installing the GNU textutils. The tail in
there works just fine.
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/textutils/textutils-1.22.tar.gz
Original
-----Original Message-----
> Hi Everyone,
> I am running a Sun Sparc 330 with SunOS 4.1.1. Whenever I try to tail a
> file for over 200 lines I only get 270 lines.
> For instance if I
>
> tail -1000 filename > filename
>
> if I do wc on filename only 270 line show.
>
> Has anyone come across this?
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