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Then that functionality is not your problem as 'tail' supports both '-' 
and '+' switches.

> 
> --mdh
> 
> On 5/24/05, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Has anyone tried this lately?  Sun ships an executable shell script
>>that extracts an RPM from itself, then you are supposed to install the
>>RPM.  Unfortunately, RHEL3 has a broken version of less which doesn't
>>accept the -1 or +511 parameters, so the shell script broke.  (These
>>are deprecated switches that RH in its wisdom decided to remove, thus
>>breaking lots of old shell scripts.)
>>
>>I was able to figure out the script and extracted the RPM by hand, but
>>the RPM itself has a shell script the uses "less -1" and it wouldn't
>>install.
>>
>>I have found no reference to this on google.  Can it really be that no
>>one else has this problem?
>>
>>Michael
>>
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