Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:13:56 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail tail.c Message-ID: <20011002181356.B45799@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200110021503.IAA29256@windsor.research.att.com>; from fenner@research.att.com on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:03:53AM -0700 References: <200110020622.f926M1730641@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011002121945.O74839@sunbay.com> <200110021503.IAA29256@windsor.research.att.com>
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:03:53AM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote: > > Actually I meant -F -1. -1F works too but is in less common > use. > > (It's pretty confusing that -1 -F works and -F -1 didn't.) > Actually, the change fixes both "-F -1" and "-1F". Neither worked before: # tail -F -1 /var/log/messages tail: illegal option -- 1 usage: tail [-F | -f | -r] [-b # | -c # | -n #] [file ...] # tail -1F /var/log/messages tail: illegal option -- -1F Interesting why in the second case the usage isn't displayed. :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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