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Wait, i thought the flag “-F” does not error when the file does not exist and will start tailing it when it does.

I just want to come back and say when I tested this with tail -F just now, it did NOT start actually tailing when the log file was generated. tail (GNU coreutils) 8.22

ooo maybe I have been using -f instead all along

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