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diff --git a/man/tail.1 b/man/tail.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bb92b19 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/tail.1 @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.48.5. +.TH TAIL "1" "August 2023" "GNU coreutils 9.4" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +tail \- output the last part of files +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B tail +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.\" Add any additional description here +.PP +Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. +With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. +.PP +With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input. +.PP +Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. +.TP +\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fI\,[\/\fR+]NUM +output the last NUM bytes; or use \fB\-c\fR +NUM to +output starting with byte NUM of each file +.TP +\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-follow[=\fR{name|descriptor}] +output appended data as the file grows; +.IP +an absent option argument means 'descriptor' +.TP +\fB\-F\fR +same as \fB\-\-follow\fR=\fI\,name\/\fR \fB\-\-retry\fR +.TP +\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR=\fI\,[\/\fR+]NUM +output the last NUM lines, instead of the last 10; +or use \fB\-n\fR +NUM to skip NUM\-1 lines at the start +.TP +\fB\-\-max\-unchanged\-stats\fR=\fI\,N\/\fR +with \fB\-\-follow\fR=\fI\,name\/\fR, reopen a FILE which has not +.IP +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 +.TP +\fB\-\-pid\fR=\fI\,PID\/\fR +with \fB\-f\fR, terminate after process ID, PID dies +.TP +\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR +never output headers giving file names +.TP +\fB\-\-retry\fR +keep trying to open a file if it is inaccessible +.TP +\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-sleep\-interval\fR=\fI\,N\/\fR +with \fB\-f\fR, sleep for approximately N seconds +(default 1.0) between iterations; +with inotify and \fB\-\-pid\fR=\fI\,P\/\fR, check process P at +least once every N seconds +.TP +\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR +always output headers giving file names +.TP +\fB\-z\fR, \fB\-\-zero\-terminated\fR +line delimiter is NUL, not newline +.TP +\fB\-\-help\fR +display this help and exit +.TP +\fB\-\-version\fR +output version information and exit +.PP +NUM may have a multiplier suffix: +b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, +GB 1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y, R, Q. +Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. +.PP +With \fB\-\-follow\fR (\fB\-f\fR), tail defaults to following the file descriptor, which +means that even if a tail'ed file is renamed, tail will continue to track +its end. This default behavior is not desirable when you really want to +track the actual name of the file, not the file descriptor (e.g., log +rotation). Use \fB\-\-follow\fR=\fI\,name\/\fR in that case. That causes tail to track the +named file in a way that accommodates renaming, removal and creation. +.SH AUTHOR +Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, +and Jim Meyering. +.SH "REPORTING BUGS" +GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> +.br +Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright \(co 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. +.br +This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. +There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +\fBhead\fP(1) +.PP +.br +Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tail> +.br +or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) tail invocation\(aq |