Re: Feature request about "Tail -f": Gentle exit (not using CTRL+C)

[L A Walsh]

On 10/21/2018 10:14 AM, Ingo Krabbe wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> you actually have many more options to leave a tail -f.
>   
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   What other key can you press to exit tail that is not likely
to also be a control-signal.  I.e. I think what may be wanted here is
pressing 'q' or something similar?

   This would require a small addition of code to monitor stdin
and, perhaps itself send a SIGHUP to parent and exit.  But it guarantees
that that an uncaught SIG won't end up being sent to the parent.

   For example:

>  for f in /tmp/*;do
>  tail -f "$f"
>  done

That code prints the tail of the 1st file in the dir.  But if I press
control-c, it also kills the for-loop. 

Perhaps that is undesired?
....wow...what do you know...
that was EXACTLY what was wanted.

Some simple keypress to allow an exit.
What is it with all the complexity and non-intuitive methods to kill it?