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| -rw-r--r-- | inotail.1 | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ .\" ** The above line should force tbl to be a preprocessor ** .\" Man page for inotail .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> +.\" Copyright (c) 2006-2008 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" +.TH INOTAIL 1 "2008-07-03" "" "Inotify enhanced tail" .SH NAME inotail \- A fast and lightweight version of tail using inotify .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -34,8 +34,15 @@ be in the future. 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 +.B \-f, \fB\-\-follow\fR[={descriptor|name}] +keep the file(s) open and print appended data as the file grows; \fB\-f\fR, +\fB\-\-follow\fR, and \fB\-\-follow=\fIdescriptor\fR are equivalent and follow +the file descriptor even if the file is renamed or moved. Use +\fB\-\-follow=name\fR if you want to track the file by name. In this case the +file is reopened as soon as it got recreated. +.TP +.B \-F +equivalent to \fB\-\-follow=name\fR. .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 '+', |