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That's the difference between 'tail -f' and 'tail -F' and is implemented in every tail I know of.
by daurnimator 11y ago
That's the difference between 'tail -f' and 'tail -F' and is implemented in every tail I know of.
- mh- 11y agoindeed. `tail -qF` has been muscle memory for me for as long as I can remember. if you have long lived sessions tail'ing logs that get rotated (or truncated), forgetting -F is a good way to eventually end up confused, ctrl-c'ing, and finally cursing.