* George Georgalis <george@galis.org> [2006-06-16 09:18:07 -0400]:

> >> 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.

Interesting.  Why distro and version of coreutils?  -F is the equivalent
to --follow=name in newer coreutils; I don't know when it was added, but
I've been seeing it for a while.

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