gnu-fileutils

Binary "tail" a file

I would guess most people on this site are familiar with tail, if not - it provides a "follow" mode that as text is appended to the file tail will dump those characters out to the terminal. What I am looking for (and possibly to write myself if necessary) is a version of tail that works on binary files. Basically I have a wireless link ...

`ls` exit status

EDIT: nothing to see here!!! 127 return means the command wasn't found - had to give an absolute path to the command for some reason :/ (I didn't delete in case someone else has this problem) Is there a reference of return statuses for common Linux functions like ls? (it doesn't seem to be in the man pages, at least for ls). If not, can...