From 3f565ee1fe8e562dafda995b6b629af36f95ab5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:54:33 +0000 Subject: (tail invocation): Do not ignore -f for all pipes, just for when standard input is a pipe and no file operand is specified. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2