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diff --git a/text-utils/tailf.1 b/text-utils/tailf.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..33a000d13 --- /dev/null +++ b/text-utils/tailf.1 @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +.\" tailf.1 -- +.\" Created: Thu Jan 11 16:43:10 1996 by faith@acm.org +.\" Copyright 1996, 2003 Rickard E. Faith (faith@acm.org) +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" +.TH TAILF 1 "13 February 2003" "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +tailf \- follow the growth of a log file +.SH SYNOPSIS +.BI tailf " 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 +.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 +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 +battery life. +.SH BUGS +An option could be provided to print out the last +.I n +lines instead of the last 10. +.SH AUTHOR +This program was written by Rik Faith (faith@acm.org) and may be freely +distributed under the terms of the X11/MIT License. There is ABSOLUTELY +NO WARRANTY for this program. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR tail "(1), " less "(1)" |