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Re: old style tail(1) options and bin/57483



>> Do we want to support postfix options in something like old style
>> +<n>qF ?

Personally, I curse every time I run into a tail that doesn't support
"tail +0f" or "tail -f".  I think that and "tail -%d" are the only
forms I use enough for it to be any kind of issue for me for them to
change.

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