cat to standard out acts like tail

[Matthias Apitz]

El día viernes, febrero 02, 2018 a las 09:24:35a. m. -0500, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions escribió:

> FreeBSD-11p6
> 
> # ll /bin/cat
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  13288 Nov 13 10:00 /bin/cat
> 
> [root at inet19 ~]# ll /bin/cat
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  13288 Nov 13 10:00 /bin/cat
> # wc /etc/rc.conf
>       46     226    2093 /etc/rc.conf
> # cat /etc/rc.conf | wc
>       46     226    2093
> # cat -n /etc/rc.conf
> 
>     12
>     13  # Cloned i/f and assigned ipv4 addr for jails
>     14  cloned_interfaces="lo1 lo2 lo3"   # For shared jail configuration
>     15  ipv4_addrs_lo1="127.0.100.1/32"   # idempaire / theheart
>     16  ipv4_addrs_lo2="127.0.109.1/32"   # redmine - wiki / pas
...

>     45
>     46  syslogd_flags="-b 127.0.0.1 -b 192.168.216.19 -b 216.185.71.19"
> 
> What happened to the first 11 lines?

Please check with 'od -c ...' the content of the file or do

# cat -n /etc/rc.conf > /tmp/x
# vi /tmp/x

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