[clue-tech] Missing Synaptic [was Re: Grab your coat, it'sstill on!]

[WILLIAM PATTERSON+I*I SMITH]

Jed, I've absolutely no idea what I'm trying to do.
[bill at localhost ~]$ tail --help
Usage: tail [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output.
With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
      --retry              keep trying to open a file even if it is
                           inaccessible when tail starts or if it becomes
                           inaccessible later; useful when following by name,
                           i.e., with --follow=name
  -c, --bytes=N            output the last N bytes
  -f, --follow[={name|descriptor}]
                           output appended data as the file grows;
                           -f, --follow, and --follow=descriptor are
                           equivalent
  -F                       same as --follow=name --retry
  -n, --lines=N            output the last N lines, instead of the last 10
      --max-unchanged-stats=N
                           with --follow=name, reopen a FILE which has not
                           changed size after N (default 5) iterations
                           to see if it has been unlinked or renamed
                           (this is the usual case of rotated log files)
      --pid=PID            with -f, terminate after process ID, PID dies
  -q, --quiet, --silent    never output headers giving file names
  -s, --sleep-interval=S   with -f, sleep for approximately S seconds
                           (default 1.0) between iterations.
  -v, --verbose            always output headers giving file names
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a `+',
print beginning with the Nth item from the start of each file, otherwise,
print the last N items in the file.  N may have a multiplier suffix:
b 512, k 1024, m 1024*1024.

With --follow (-f), tail defaults to following the file descriptor, which
means that even if a tail'ed file is renamed, tail will continue to track
its end.  This default behavior is not desirable when you really want to
track the actual name of the file, not the file descriptor (e.g., log
rotation).  Use --follow=name in that case.  That causes tail to track the
named file by reopening it periodically to see if it has been removed and
recreated by some other program.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils at gnu.org>.


> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:17:46 -0700
> From: cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net
> To: clue-tech at cluedenver.org
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Missing Synaptic [was Re: Grab your coat, it'sstill	on!]
> 
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:14:15 -0700
> WILLIAM PATTERSON+I*I SMITH wrote:
> 
> > [bill at localhost ~]$ tail --lines=20 -/.xsessions-errors
> > tail: invalid option -- '/'
> > Try `tail --help' for more information.
> > [bill at localhost ~]$
> 
> Did you try 'tail --help' and see what it told you? Or even 'man tail'?
> 
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