CC-tea/coreutils
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils.git synced 2026-04-21 03:12:48 +02:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

(tail invocation): With no operand, 'tail -f' now

Browse Source 
silently ignores the '-f' only if standard input is a FIFO or pipe
and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
This commit is contained in:
Paul Eggert
2006-07-01 23:49:46 +00:00
parent aa9b173531
commit 0830b1b82a
1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

7
doc/coreutils.texi
View File

@@ -2501,8 +2501,7 @@ by 1048576.
@vindex name @r{follow option}
@vindex descriptor @r{follow option}
Loop forever trying to read more characters at the end of the file,
presumably because the file is growing. This option is ignored if
no @var{file} operand is specified and standard input is a pipe.
presumably because the file is growing.
If more than one file is given, @command{tail} prints a header whenever it
gets output from a different file, to indicate which file that output is
from.
@@ -2534,6 +2533,10 @@ growing.
The option values @samp{descriptor} and @samp{name} may be specified only
with the long form of the option, not with @option{-f}.
@vindex POSIXLY_CORRECT
If @env{POSIXLY_CORRECT} is set, the @option{-f} option is ignored if
no @var{file} operand is specified and standard input is a pipe.
@item -F
@opindex -F
This option is the same as @option{--follow=name --retry}. That is, tail