I won't argue that for this specific use case, tail isn't friendlier than less. But the original poster posted a useful tip, and is now getting aggressive down

I won't argue that for this specific use case, tail isn't friendlier than less. But the original poster posted a useful tip, and is now getting aggressive downvotes and comments like "This has nothing to do with what is being discussed in this subthread." I think that's unwarranted.