In <4afd57ba.7080...@googlemail.com>, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> What does 'watch' deliver that 'tail -f' does not? 'tail -f' is even >> realtime, something that watch is not. > >Nothing I guess, thanks for pointing this bashism. Time for a "man tail" >(that's interesting...).
The "-f" option to tail is not a bashism. The "-f" option to tail is specified in the Single UNIX Specification, version 2 (and possibly other versions). Bashisms are features of *bash* that are not required features of the "Shell Command Lanaguage" part of the POSIX/SUS lines of specifications. It is not an alias for "stuff you didn't know". -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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