There is a stupid bug in tail, I think. When tail is used with -f option and source file is overwritten, then error message "==> filename: file truncated <==" is written to standard output instead of standard error output. This is very unpleasant because you can't get rid of these error messages easily, simply, although you try "tail -f some_file 2>/dev/null", you get error messages to standard output anyway - I think that is not right.
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