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Subject: OT: tail nuance
From: Paul Halliday <paul.halliday@gmail.com>
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I figured someone here would likely know the answer to this one.

On freebsd if I do:

~% mkdir dirA
~% tail -n0 -F dirA/afile.txt
~% echo test > dirA/afile.txt

>> test

~% mv dirA dirB
~% rm dirB/afile.txt
~% mkdir dirA
~% echo test > dirA/afile.txt

>> test

Which is what I would expect to happen. When I do the same test on a
linux box it doesn't report the last echo (or any other redirection to
the file).

What am I missing?

Thanks!

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Paul Halliday
http://www.pintumbler.org/