NAME
tail - 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. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long flags are mandatory for short flags too.
SYNOPSIS
tail [-c|--bytes] [-f|--follow] [-n|--lines] [--pid] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--sleep-interval] [--max-unchanged-stats] [-v|--verbose] [-z|--zero-terminated] [--use-polling] [--retry] [-F ] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [files]
DESCRIPTION
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. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long flags are mandatory for short flags too.
OPTIONS
- -c, --bytes
-
Number of bytes to print
- -f, --follow
-
Print the file as it grows
[possible values: descriptor, name]
- -n, --lines
-
Number of lines to print
- --pid=PID
-
With -f, terminate after process ID, PID dies
- -q, --quiet
-
Never output headers giving file names
- -s, --sleep-interval=N
-
Number of seconds to sleep between polling the file when running with -f
- --max-unchanged-stats=N
-
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); This option is meaningful only when polling (i.e., with --use-polling) and when --follow=name
- -v, --verbose
-
Always output headers giving file names
- -z, --zero-terminated
-
Line delimiter is NUL, not newline
- --use-polling
-
Disable 'inotify' support and use polling instead
- --retry
-
Keep trying to open a file if it is inaccessible
- -F
-
Same as --follow=name --retry
- -h, --help
-
Print help
- -V, --version
-
Print version
- [files]
VERSION
v0.0.30