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From: Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net>
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Subject: RE: tail
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> It might be, depending on what you were feeding it to.  I think the
> point people are making is that directory data is, in certain cases,
> also potentially useful for something they might conceivably want to
> do, and if you yourself don't want to look at it then you shouldn't
> ask the system to show it to you.  "Doctor, it hurts when I poke
> myself in the eye.." :)

We have rm -rf to protect us from doing things to directories (IE: rm
/poop).

We need tail -argument to protect us from doing things to directories.



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