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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-07-22 20:54:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-07-22 20:54:33 +0000 |
| commit | 3f565ee1fe8e562dafda995b6b629af36f95ab5b (patch) | |
| tree | f9ba1c7720a81150babc210b647ea3c7a6065e82 /doc | |
| parent | 255eb9cf44100e5fbd269e7ccf04faafb0c38f73 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-3f565ee1fe8e562dafda995b6b629af36f95ab5b.tar.xz | |
(tail invocation): Do not ignore -f for
all pipes, just for when standard input is a pipe and no
file operand is specified.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 007c8b45e..6f93e10dc 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2426,8 +2426,8 @@ 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 when -reading from a pipe. +presumably because the file is growing. This option is ignored if +no @var{file} operand is specified and standard input is a pipe. 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. |