Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:43:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway) Cc: juha@saarinen.org (Juha Saarinen), dan@langille.org (Dan Langille), chris@jeah.net (Chris Byrnes), stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <200104301543.IAA98351@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20010429221233.A99057@xor.obsecurity.org> from Kris Kennaway at "Apr 29, 2001 10:12:33 pm"
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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:08:47PM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> > :: tail is doing as ordered. Directories and files are the same. So it's
> > :: giving you the last ten lines of the file /
> >
> > Tail voss only obeyink orters???
> >
> > Well, it's silly to do that unthinkingly. Here's what happens on a Debian
> > box:
> >
> > juha@cyrus:~$ tail /
> > tail: /: Is a directory
> >
> > More desirable behaviour, IMO.
>
> UNIX is about doing what you ask for. You want to tail/cat a
> directory, who is the system to tell you otherwise.
Yea.... but seems these people who now have access to change the
code, like to change the code, just because they want to protect
the fools who don't really now what to ask for :-)
vi /
Warning: / is not a regular file; /: unmodified, readonly: line 1
ex /
Warning: / is not a regular file
Press Enter to continue:
/: unmodified, readonly: line 3
:q
counter.hpc1.com:rgrimes {73}% ed /
512
Ahhh finally... a tool that does what I said without giving me grief!!
--
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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