<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Change tail --lines=20 -/.xsessions-errors to tail --lines=20 ~/.xsessions-errors.<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "WILLIAM PATTERSON+I*I SMITH" <wpsmithii@msn.com><br>To: clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:33:33 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain<br>Subject: RE: [clue-tech] Missing Synaptic [was Re: Grab your coat, it'sstill on!]<br><br>
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Jed, I've absolutely no idea what I'm trying to do.<br>[bill@localhost ~]$ tail --help<br>Usage: tail [OPTION]... [FILE]...<br>Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output.<br>With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name.<br>With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.<br><br>Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.<br> --retry keep trying to open a file even if it is<br> inaccessible when tail starts or if it becomes<br> inaccessible later; useful when following by name,<br> i.e., with --follow=name<br> -c, --bytes=N output the last N bytes<br> -f, --follow[={name|descriptor}]<br> output appended data as the file grows;<br> -f, --follow, and --follow=descriptor are<br> equivalent<br> -F same as --follow=name --retry<br> -n, --lines=N output the last N lines, instead of the last 10<br> --max-unchanged-stats=N<br> with --follow=name, reopen a FILE which has not<br> changed size after N (default 5) iterations<br> to see if it has been unlinked or renamed<br> (this is the usual case of rotated log files)<br> --pid=PID with -f, terminate after process ID, PID dies<br> -q, --quiet, --silent never output headers giving file names<br> -s, --sleep-interval=S with -f, sleep for approximately S seconds<br> (default 1.0) between iterations.<br> -v, --verbose always output headers giving file names<br> --help display this help and exit<br> --version output version information and exit<br><br>If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a `+',<br>print beginning with the Nth item from the start of each file, otherwise,<br>print the last N items in the file. N may have a multiplier suffix:<br>b 512, k 1024, m 1024*1024.<br><br>With --follow (-f), tail defaults to following the file descriptor, which<br>means that even if a tail'ed file is renamed, tail will continue to track<br>its end. This default behavior is not desirable when you really want to<br>track the actual name of the file, not the file descriptor (e.g., log<br>rotation). Use --follow=name in that case. That causes tail to track the<br>named file by reopening it periodically to see if it has been removed and<br>recreated by some other program.<br><br>Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.<br><br><br>> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:17:46 -0700<br>> From: cluemail@jbaer.cotse.net<br>> To: clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Missing Synaptic [was Re: Grab your coat, it'sstill on!]<br>> <br>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:14:15 -0700<br>> WILLIAM PATTERSON+I*I SMITH wrote:<br>> <br>> > [bill@localhost ~]$ tail --lines=20 -/.xsessions-errors<br>> > tail: invalid option -- '/'<br>> > Try `tail --help' for more information.<br>> > [bill@localhost ~]$<br>> <br>> Did you try 'tail --help' and see what it told you? Or even 'man tail'?<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Ok, so we should be thinking of a lovable, cuddly, stuffed penguin<br>> sitting down after having gorged itself on herring. Still with me? <br>> -- Linux Torvalds<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> clue-tech mailing list<br>> clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>> http://www.cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech<br> <br>_______________________________________________
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