tests/tail/start-middle.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Verify that tail works even when it's reading from a file
# that is not at its beginning.  Based on a report from John Roll.

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. "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
print_ver_ tail

(echo 1; echo 2) > k || framework_failure_


sh -c 'read x; tail' < k > out || fail=1
cat <<EOF > exp
2
EOF

compare exp out || fail=1

Exit $fail
