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From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>
To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
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Subject: Re: tail
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:03:52AM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> Can you please prove nesessarity of such behavior, as really useful examples
> of cat/tail of directory, or an example of needed compatibility?

One use I can think of is to list the contents of a directory in order
to make a quick-and-dirty assessment of whether ls has been replaced
by a trojan or not. I know that cat/tail could have been replaced too,
but _if_ you see different results you know something fishy is going on
in a couple of seconds.

-past

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