---
name: "uu-tail"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "uutils-coreutils"
version: "0.12.0-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/uu-tail"
---

# uu-tail(1)

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 options are mandatory for short options too.

## 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 options are mandatory for short options too.

## SYNOPSIS

**tail** \[OPTION\]... \[FILE\]...

## 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 options are mandatory for short options 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

- **--debug**

  indicate which --follow implementation is used

- **-h**, **--help**

  Print help

- **-V**, **--version**

  Print version

- \[*files*\]

  ## VERSION

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0