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| -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. |