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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2014-07-15 23:07:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-07-16 12:03:25 +0200 |
| commit | 07990fdcd4e71ebc5a6a0029a183ad58d8b7b209 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d4e59165803fcc05d31bae32458d2b043244082 /text-utils/tailf.1 | |
| parent | lslogins: make --notruncate more robust (diff) | |
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docs: bring several man pages closer to standard formatting
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils/tailf.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | text-utils/tailf.1 | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/tailf.1 b/text-utils/tailf.1 index 1cdbff16d..bfe97bc4a 100644 --- a/text-utils/tailf.1 +++ b/text-utils/tailf.1 @@ -22,16 +22,17 @@ .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" -.TH TAILF 1 "February 2003" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.TH TAILF 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands" .SH NAME tailf \- follow the growth of a log file .SH SYNOPSIS .B tailf -[\fIOPTION\fR] \fIfile\fR +[option] +.I file .SH DESCRIPTION .B tailf -will print out the last 10 lines of a file and then wait for the file to -grow. It is similar to +will print out the last 10 lines of the given \fIfile\fR and then wait +for this \fIfile\fR to grow. It is similar to .B tail -f but does not access the file when it is not growing. This has the side effect of not updating the access time for the file, so a filesystem flush @@ -41,12 +42,10 @@ does not occur periodically when no log activity is happening. is extremely useful for monitoring log files on a laptop when logging is infrequent and the user desires that the hard disk spin down to conserve battery life. -.PP -Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. .TP -\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR=\fIN\fR, \fB\-N\fR -output the last -.I N +.BR \-n , " -\-lines=\fInumber\fR" , " \-\fInumber\fR" +Output the last +.I number lines, instead of the last 10. .TP \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version @@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ This program was originally written by Rik Faith (faith@acm.org) and may be free distributed under the terms of the X11/MIT License. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program. -The latest inotify based implementation was written by Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com). +The latest inotify-based implementation was written by Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com). .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR tail (1), .BR less (1) |