Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:08:47 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> To: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>, "Chris Byrnes" <chris@jeah.net> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: tail Message-ID: <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFOEOICCAA.juha@saarinen.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104301632200.43352-100000@lists.unixathome.org>
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:: tail is doing as ordered. Directories and files are the same. So it's :: giving you the last ten lines of the file / Tail voss only obeyink orters??? Well, it's silly to do that unthinkingly. Here's what happens on a Debian box: juha@cyrus:~$ tail / tail: /: Is a directory More desirable behaviour, IMO. -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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