Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] user-definable tail and grep

[Jean Delvare]

Hi John,

[John Vandenberg]
> A broken tail could be handled gracefully with a compatibility shell
> script.

True, but at the price of a performance loss. In my case, I prefer to use
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail rather than a shell script modifying /usr/bin/tail's
arguments on the fly.

Of course, if systems exist without a working tail binary, a
compatibility shell script would be welcome, but I wouldn't bother
before someone actually needs it.

Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare