David has, in fairly scathing tones, encouraged me to read the tail man page because *he* wants it to be identical. Which, well, okay, I’ll read it, FINE.
@hipsterelectron @ceejbot I probably did read it at some point in the late 80s but I so surmise merely because I have been using tail for longer than I can remember
On the other hand the man tail I read was probably for system V so prob irrelevant in this context