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Re: [PATCH] doc: fix description of tail -f on truncated files
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [PATCH] doc: fix description of tail -f on truncated files |
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Sun, 9 Jun 2019 08:13:21 -0700 |
On Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 04:43 Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> * doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Update to match
> the new behavior following commit v8.23-189-gb28ff6a
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> ...
> No matter which method you use, if the tracked file is determined to have
> shrunk, @command{tail} prints a message saying the file has been truncated
> -and resumes tracking the end of the file from the newly-determined
> endpoint.
> +and resumes tracking from the start of the file, assuming it has been
> +truncated to 0, which is the usual truncation operation for log files.
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Good point.