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.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 versions 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. \fINote:\fR inotail
will not work on systems running kernels without Inotify. To enable Inotify ,
please set CONFIG_INOTIFY=y in your kernel configuration and recompile it.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-c \fIN\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fIN\fR
output the last N bytes
.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)
.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)