[TUHS] head/sed/tail (was The Unix shell: a 50-year view)

[Adam Thornton]

> On Jul 14, 2021, at 9:19 PM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> The GNU coreutils provides "tac" (c-a-t backwards) 

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> (It too has too many options, but let's not go there.)

GNU pretty much anything has too many options.

I do aesthetically appreciate that tail -f is a bit of an abomination, but realistically it’s also 90% or more of my actual use of tail.  There obviously needs to be SOMETHING that lets you watch the end of a growing file as it’s growing.

Adam