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diff --git a/inotail.1 b/inotail.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c19ac3 --- /dev/null +++ b/inotail.1 @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +'\" t +.\" ** The above line should force tbl to be a preprocessor ** +.\" Man page for inotail +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> +.\" +.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public +.\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with +.\" inotail. + +.pc +.TH INOTAIL 1 "2006-08-13" "" "Inotify enhanced tail" +.SH NAME +inotail \- A fast and lightweight version of tail using inotify +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B inotail +[OPTION]... [FILE]... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B 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. \fINote:\fR 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. +.PP +Currently inotail is not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might +be in the future. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B \-c \fIN\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fIN\fR +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. +.TP +.B \-f, \fB\-\-follow +keep the file(s) open and print appended data as the file grows +.TP +.B \-n \fIN\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR=\fIN\fR +output the last N lines (default: 10) If the first character of N is a '+', +begin printing with with the Nth line from the start of each file. +.TP +.B \-v, \fB\-\-verbose +print headers with file names +.TP +.B \-h, \fB\-\-help +show help and exit +.TP +.B \-V, \fB\-\-version +show inotail version and exit +.SH AUTHOR +.PP +Written by Tobias Klauser +<tklauser@distanz.ch> +.SH SEE ALSO +.PP +.BR tail(1), +.BR inotify(7) |