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tail -f nohup.out gives cannot open 'nohup.out' for reading: No such file or directory
From man 1 nohup [emphasis mine]:
[…] If standard output is a terminal, append output to nohup.out if possible, $HOME/nohup.out otherwise. If standard error is a terminal, redirect it to standard ...
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Why are simlink loop not an issue?
A hard link is a second copy of a pointer to a hard piece of filesystem data, the inode, while a symbolic link (symlink) is simply a special file containing an instruction to (akin to a web URL) to go ...
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How to print last character of a file
by 'last char' - do you mean last letter or last byte?
Usually a text file is ended with LF (or CRLF in Win), so tail -c1 will return that ending cbyte of the file.
to get last 'letter-char' one can ...
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