Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:22:05 -0700 From: Ted Faber <faber@lunabase.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: <20010429222205.A29058@praxis.lunabase.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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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:08:47PM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: > 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. FYI, and maybe surprisingly, you're about to start a flame war. BSD tail and related tools have been treating directories as files for *many* years. The behavior goes back to the earliest UNIX systems. It will not change, nor is it worth arguing about. If you hate the behavior, put a 2-line shell script around tail, cat, and whatever other programs you want that aborts the operation if the argument's a directory. --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE67PZ9aUz3f+Zf+XsRAn2KAJsHWM84KehFC1BXevJv2eepQnEa6wCgj0ij 7YjHMPzbcY2no6cGVjRA4z4= =xC5k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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