From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 10:23:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501F516A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:23:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-27.ig.com.br (smtp-27.ig.com.br [200.226.132.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB20943D4C for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:23:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hlen@ig.com.br) Received: (qmail 8322 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2004 18:23:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ig.com.br) (200.216.23.177) by smtp-27.ig.com.br with SMTP; 6 Feb 2004 18:23:52 -0000 Message-ID: <4023DB42.2080504@ig.com.br> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:21:54 -0200 From: Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040121 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: tail & head manpage detail X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:23:54 -0000 Hello, Both the tail and head manpages have something like: -n number The location is number lines. It should be: -n NUM, -NUM The location is NUM lines. The information that you don't need the 'n ' is missing. Best, -- Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto