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On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 02:08:06PM +0300, Alex Efros wrote:
>Hi!
>
>On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 07:03:03AM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
>> 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
>
>Linux understand -F too.

*sigh* not my linux

tail -F /var/log/socklog/main/current 
tail: invalid option -- F
Try `tail --help' for more information.

// George

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