Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:51:50 +0000 (UTC) From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r359229 - head/usr.bin/tail Message-ID: <202003222151.02MLpoTg001726@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer) Date: Sun Mar 22 21:51:50 2020 New Revision: 359229 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/359229 Log: Use -F instead of -f in tail(1) examples There is an example in tail(1) manual page explaining how to use tail(1) to track the contents of /var/log/messages. The example uses the -f flag to follow the file. The problem with the -f flag is that it cannot handle the situation where /var/log/messages is rotated. Hence, use -F instead in the example. Reviewed by: asomers MFC after: 3 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24157 Modified: head/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 Modified: head/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 Sun Mar 22 21:41:32 2020 (r359228) +++ head/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 Sun Mar 22 21:51:50 2020 (r359229) @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" @(#)tail.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 10, 2018 +.Dd March 22, 2020 .Dt TAIL 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Keep .Pa /var/log/messages open, displaying to the standard output anything appended to the file: .Pp -.Dl $ tail -f /var/log/messages +.Dl $ tail -F /var/log/messages .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cat 1 , .Xr head 1 ,
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