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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2016-03-17 10:54:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2016-03-17 12:18:54 +0100 |
| commit | 49b7f95e43288f104adcc86a888d45ed36217307 (patch) | |
| tree | 680322eb57eee3712cedf668d6456392ad7446c1 /text-utils | |
| parent | fdisk: fix the grammar of an option description (diff) | |
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docs: miscellaneous tiny tweaks of man pages
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils')
| -rw-r--r-- | text-utils/tailf.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/tailf.1 b/text-utils/tailf.1 index 9c6bd6ade..31bc177fd 100644 --- a/text-utils/tailf.1 +++ b/text-utils/tailf.1 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" -.TH TAILF 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.TH TAILF 1 "March 2015" "util-linux" "User Commands" .SH NAME tailf \- follow the growth of a log file .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ tailf \- follow the growth of a log file .I file .SH DESCRIPTION .B tailf is deprecated. -It may have unfixed bugs and will be removed in March 2017. Nowadays it's safe -to use +It may have unfixed bugs and will be removed from util-linux in March 2017. +Nowadays it's safe to use .B tail -f -(coreutils) in contrast to the original documentation below. +(from coreutils), in contrast to what the original documentation below says. .PP .B tailf will print out the last 10 lines of the given \fIfile\fR and then wait @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ does not occur periodically when no log activity is happening. .PP .B tailf 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 +infrequent and the user wishes the hard disk to spin down to conserve battery life. .TP .BR \-n , " -\-lines=\fInumber\fR" , " \-\fInumber\fR" |