Re: getting head: illegal line count -- -31

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 08/14/14 14:55, Bob wrote:
> I am running ACTS to do my backups and cleanup my archive. Everything was fine
> for a month or so, now I get "
> 
> head: illegal line count -- -31" at the end of the tarsnap backup. As far as I
> can tell, everything is still being backed up, but this message must mean
> something. Can anyone help?

That would be a problem with the script you're using -- looks like it's in the
part of the script which deletes old daily backups.  The "-n negative number"
option to the head utility is nonportable and presumably doesn't exist on your
operating system.

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Colin Percival
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