1Rex::Commands::Tail(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentationRex::Commands::Tail(3)
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NAME

6       Rex::Commands::Tail - Tail a file
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8       Version <= 1.0: All these functions will not be reported.
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10       All these functions are not idempotent.
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DESCRIPTION

13       With this module you can tail a file.
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SYNOPSIS

16        tail "/var/log/syslog";
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EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

19   tail($file)
20       This function will tail the given file.
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22        task "syslog", "server01", sub {
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26       If you want to control the output format, you can define a callback
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41perl v5.36.1                      2023-08-07            Rex::Commands::Tail(3)