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protomyth
on March 30, 2015
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Stop using tail -f (mostly)
Ok, but it has an -f behavior that seems to do the right thing. I don't think I would file a request to add flags that aren't needed.
I'm not being "pedantic", I just don't think there is anything to change.
acdha
on March 31, 2015
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The idea is that if everyone else is converging on "tail -F" supporting that as an alias means that people's habits & shell scripts just work without modification. That seems worth adding a single line to a switch statement to me.
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I'm not being "pedantic", I just don't think there is anything to change.