From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 29 22:12:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-27.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B0937B422 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9DAC966DB9; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:12:33 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Juha Saarinen Cc: Dan Langille , Chris Byrnes , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <20010429221233.A99057@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from juha@saarinen.org on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:08:47PM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --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