Re: [gpsd-dev] "INSTALL" documentation issue with OS X 10.10 (All BSD's, too?)

[Hal Murray]

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> Documentation in NetBSD agrees with you on '-f'. 

On Linux:
tail -f displays new data that gets appended to the end of a file.
tail -F starts over with at the beginning of a new file if the file gets 
renamed or reset.

The latter covers watching log files while logrotate or newsyslog decides 
it's time for a new log file.


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