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On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:40:04AM +0300, Alex Efros wrote:
>
>Tail can follow ./current after rotate:
>    tail -F
>

Unfortunatly that is not universal...
I use a few different alias in my bourne profile


OS=$(uname)
case $OS in
	NetBSD|FreeBSD|Dragonfly|Darwin)
		alias t='tail -F'
	;;
	Linux)
		alias t='tail --follow=name'
	;;
	OpenBSD)
		alias t='tail -f'
	;;
esac


Cheers,
// George

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