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2INOTAIL(1)                   Inotify enhanced tail                  INOTAIL(1)
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NAME

7       inotail - A fast and lightweight version of tail using inotify
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SYNOPSIS

10       inotail [OPTION]... [FILE]...
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DESCRIPTION

13       inotail  is  a  replacement  for  the  'tail' program found in the base
14       installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use  of  the  inotify
15       infrastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up tail‐
16       ing files in the follow mode (the '-f' option). Standard tail polls the
17       file  every  second  by default while inotail listens to special events
18       sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a  file
19       needs  to  be  reread. Note: inotail will not work on systems running a
20       kernel without inotify. To enable inotify, please set  CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
21       in your Linux kernel configuration and recompile it.
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23       Currently  inotail is not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail
24       but might be in the future.
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OPTIONS

27       -c N, --bytes=N
28              output the last N bytes. If the first character of N is  a  '+',
29              begin  printing  with  the  Nth character from the start of each
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32       -f, --follow
33              keep the file(s) open and print appended data as the file grows
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35       -n N, --lines=N
36              output the last N lines (default: 10) If the first character  of
37              N  is  a '+', begin printing with the Nth line from the start of
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40       -v, --verbose
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43       -h, --help
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46       -V, --version
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AUTHOR

50       Written by Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
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SEE ALSO

53       tail(1), inotify(7)
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