Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:12:33 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <20010429221233.A99057@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFOEOICCAA.juha@saarinen.org>; from juha@saarinen.org on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:08:47PM %2B1200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104301632200.43352-100000@lists.unixathome.org> <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFOEOICCAA.juha@saarinen.org>
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--G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 / >=20 > Tail voss only obeyink orters??? >=20 > Well, it's silly to do that unthinkingly. Here's what happens on a Debian > box: >=20 > juha@cyrus:~$ tail / > tail: /: Is a directory >=20 > 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. Kris --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE67PRAWry0BWjoQKURAvg9AJ9L+5GrZrLfx8i4KJmgFv2i+byLegCfeLtH 4tFwqh6mo0AhjK6Kct0LV6M= =k8Of -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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