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diff --git a/inotail.1 b/inotail.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eea062b --- /dev/null +++ b/inotail.1 @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +'\" 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 the +.\" inotail distribution. + +.pc +.TH INOTAIL 1 "2006-08-13" "" "Inotify enhanced tail" +.SH NAME +inotail \- A fast and light version of tail using inotify +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B inotail +[OPTION]... [FILE]... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B inotail +is a drop-in replacement for the 'tail' program found in the base +installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the Inotify +infrastructure in recent version of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files +in the follow mode (the '-f' option). 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 +print the last N bytes +.TP +.B \-f +keep the file(s) open and print appended data as the file grows +.TP +.B \-n \fIN\fR +print the last N lines (defaults to 10) +.TP +.B \-v +Output headers with file names +.TP +.B \-h +Show help and exit +.TP +.B \-V +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) |