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docs/tail ~ fix markdownlint complaints

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- Rudimentary tail implementation. - Rudimentary tail implementation.
## Missing features: ## Missing features
### Flags with features ### Flags with features
* [ ] `--max-unchanged-stats` : with `--follow=name`, reopen a FILE which has not changed size after N (default 5) iterations to see if it has been unlinked or renamed (this is the usual case of rotated log files). With inotify, this option is rarely useful. - [ ] `--max-unchanged-stats` : with `--follow=name`, reopen a FILE which has not changed size after N (default 5) iterations to see if it has been unlinked or renamed (this is the usual case of rotated log files). With `inotify`, this option is rarely useful.
* [ ] `--retry` : keep trying to open a file even when it is or becomes inaccessible; useful when follow‐ing by name, i.e., with `--follow=name` - [ ] `--retry` : keep trying to open a file even when it is or becomes inaccessible; useful when follow‐ing by name, i.e., with `--follow=name`
### Others ### Others
- [ ] The current implementation does not handle `-` as an alias for stdin. - [ ] The current implementation does not handle `-` as an alias for stdin.
## Possible optimizations: ## Possible optimizations
* [ ] Don't read the whole file if not using `-f` and input is regular file. Read in chunks from the end going backwards, reading each individual chunk forward. - [ ] Don't read the whole file if not using `-f` and input is regular file. Read in chunks from the end going backwards, reading each individual chunk forward.