Re:Files Are Hard
by mh- on Sunday December 13, 2015 @04:24PM
(#10728012)
indeed. `tail -qF` has been muscle memory for me for as long as I can remember.
if you have long lived sessions tail'ing logs that get rotated (or truncated), forgetting -F is a good way to eventually end up confused, ctrl-c'ing, and finally cursing.
if you have long lived sessions tail'ing logs that get rotated (or truncated), forgetting -F is a good way to eventually end up confused, ctrl-c'ing, and finally cursing.