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Comment by protomyth

on OpenBSD -f does:

  Do not stop when end-of-file is reached, but rather to wait for
  additional data to be appended to the input.  If the file is re-
  placed (i.e., the inode number changes), tail will reopen the
  file and continue.  If the file is truncated, tail will reset its
  position to the beginning.  This makes tail more useful for
  watching log files that may get rotated.  The -f option is ig-
  nored if the standard input is a pipe, but not if it is a FIFO.
So, no -F or --retry but a different default behavior
parent protomyth 11 years ago

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