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(tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,

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NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
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Jim Meyering
2002-09-13 08:51:15 +00:00
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@@ -2185,11 +2185,13 @@ Without this option, when tail encounters a file that doesn't
exist or is otherwise inaccessible, it reports that fact and
never checks it again.
@itemx --sleep-interval=@var{n}
@itemx --sleep-interval=@var{number}
@opindex --sleep-interval
Change the number of seconds to wait between iterations (the default is 1).
Change the number of seconds to wait between iterations (the default is 1.0).
During one iteration, every specified file is checked to see if it has
changed size.
Historical implementations of @command{tail} have required that
@var{number} be an integer. However, GNU @command{tail} accepts
an arbitrary floating point number.
@itemx --pid=@var{pid}
@opindex --pid