1E2TAIL(1)                   General Commands Manual                  E2TAIL(1)
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NAME

6       e2tail - a basic version of the tail command for an ext2 filesystem
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SYNOPSIS

9       e2tail [options] file
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DESCRIPTION

12       The e2tail command implements a basic version of the tail command.
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OPTIONS

15       -n num_lines
16              The number of lines to display
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18       -f     Output  appended  data  as the file grows.  This is inode depen‐
19              dent, so if the file is renamed, it will keep checking it.
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21       -F     Output appended data as the  file  grows.   This  is  file  name
22              dependent,  so  if the file is renamed, it will check on any new
23              files with the same name as the original.  This  is  useful  for
24              watching  log  files that may be rotated out occasionally.  This
25              was requested by a person in the  computer  security  field  for
26              monitoring 'honeypot' type machines.
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28       -s sleep_interval
29              The  number  of seconds to sleep before checking if the file has
30              grown while in 'follow' mode.  The default is 1.
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SEE ALSO

33       e2tools(7), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2cp(1), e2rm(1), e2mv(1).
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AUTHOR

36       The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.
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38       This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for  the
39       Debian project (but may be used by others).
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43                                 March 2, 2005                       E2TAIL(1)