rtail(1)

rtail1

Follow a file that is still growning.

Usage

This application is an executable version of the features provided by ruby-file-tail.

Overview

OPTS are

-n NUMBER

show the last NUMBER of lines in the tailed files

-m PATTERN

only tail files matching PATTERN, e. g. '*.log'

-M

prefix every line with the logfile name

-h

to display this help

Releases

Unchanged in 5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch).

  1. 9–13

From ruby-file-tail 1.2.0-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.