tail script gone wrong

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi guys...

What am I doing wrong?

#!/bin/sh
LINES=1
FILE=test.log
TAIL="/usr/bin/tail -n"

$TAIL -${LINES} ${FILE}

Error:

./tail.sh
usage: tail [+/-[n][lbc][f]] [file]
tail [+/-[n][l][r|f]] [file]

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please ignore this thread..i've found the issue...sorry about it

2

You removed the minus sign "-" from the last line, right?

3

what was the solution?

4

remove the "-n" from
TAIL="/usr/bin/tail -n"