Feature request about "Tail -f": Gentle exit (not using CTRL+C)

[Brian Wengel]

Dear coreutils maintainer team



It seem you can only exit “tail –f…” sending *CTRL+C*, but that can be an
issue if you call it from another process that you want to keep running
after tail has exited.



Another example is “start daemon; tail -F logfile; stop daemon” as
user2394284 commented in this StackExchange
<https://askubuntu.com/questions/36785/tail-how-to-quit-tail-and-restore-terminal-window>
thread.



A good and gentle way to exit could be sending “*q*” just as e.g.
“journalctl –b” do.


I hope you'll consider my request.


And of course, a big thanks for the effort you put into the coreutils :-)


Best regards

Brian

Denmark