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inotail - A fast and lightweight version of tail using inotify
inotail [OPTION]... [FILE]...
inotail is a replacement for
the ’tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux/UNIX system.
It makes use of the inotify infrastructure in recent versions of the Linux
kernel to speed up tailing files in the follow mode (the ’-f’ option). Standard
tail polls the file every second by default while inotail listens to special
events sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether
a file needs to be reread. Note: inotail will not work on systems running
a kernel without inotify. To enable inotify, please set CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
in your Linux kernel configuration and recompile it.
Currently inotail is
not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might be in the future.
- -c N, --bytes=N
- output the last N bytes. If the first character of N
is a ’+’, begin printing with the Nth character from the start of each file.
- -f, --follow
- keep the file(s) open and print appended data as the file grows
- -n N, --lines=N
- output the last N lines (default: 10) If the first character
of N is a ’+’, begin printing with the Nth line from the start of each file.
- -v, --verbose
- print headers with file names
- -h, --help
- show help and exit
- -V,
--version
- show inotail version and exit
Written by Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
tail(1), inotify(7)
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