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Re: GNU coding standards clash with POSIX for "... | tail -f"
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
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Re: GNU coding standards clash with POSIX for "... | tail -f" |
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Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:04:07 +0200 (CEST) |
> (2) I don't think many people are relying on this behavior. (Why
> would you want to run "tail -f" on a pipe?)
Agreed. That does seem freaky. I can't think of a useful case for
it.
I can't think of a specific or concrete case right now, but `tail -f'
on a pipe could be used on GNU/Hurd, in theory.
Cheers.