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> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 21:03 -0400, Joe Steele wrote:
> 
> > I think this behavior is controllable.  A vanilla version of tail (from GNU
> > coreutils-5.2.1) can be forced to exhibit the 'obsolete' behavior if the
> > environment contains the variable '_POSIX2_VERSION' set to some value less
> > than 200112.
> > 
> > I don't know about RHEL, but FC3 uses a modified tail command so that the
> > only way to get the 'new' behavior is to define '_POSIX2_VERSION' >= 200112
> > and also define POSIXLY_CORRECT in the environment.
> >  
> > To get the 'obsolete' behavior, I'd suggest trying:
> > export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
> 
> You have just been awarded "Guru cum laude" of environment variables!!

Excellent!  That will make an impressive addition to my resume.

> Where did you find that info?

Uhmm... info? (OK...  more specifically, info tail.)

That, and also the FC3 source, to see how they patched the GNU version.

--Joe


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