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@@ -2226,6 +2226,7 @@ never checks it again.
@opindex --sleep-interval
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.