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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(1)  command  implements a basic version of the tail(1) com‐
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OPTIONS

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

34       Check `/var/log/messages` on `/dev/sdc1` every 10 seconds
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36           e2tail -s 10 -F /dev/sdc1:/var/log/messages
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SEE ALSO

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

42       The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.
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44       This  manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the
45       Debian project (but may be used by others).
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49Linux                             2020-02-05                         E2TAIL(1)