tail

Options

--bytes, -c

tail-help-bytes

--follow, -f

tail-help-follow

--lines, -n

tail-help-lines

--pid=<PID>

tail-help-pid

--quiet, --silent, -q

tail-help-quiet

--sleep-interval=<N>, -s <N>

tail-help-sleep-interval

--max-unchanged-stats=<N>

tail-help-max-unchanged-stats

--verbose, -v

tail-help-verbose

--zero-terminated, -z

tail-help-zero-terminated

--use-polling

tail-help-polling-linux

--retry

tail-help-retry

-F

tail-help-follow-retry

--presume-input-pipe

Examples

Show last 'count' lines in file:

tail {{[-n|--lines]}} {{count}} {{path/to/file}}

Print a file from a specific line number:

tail {{[-n|--lines]}} +{{count}} {{path/to/file}}

Print a specific count of bytes from the end of a given file:

tail {{[-c|--bytes]}} {{count}} {{path/to/file}}

Print the last lines of a given file and keep reading it until <Ctrl c>:

tail {{[-f|--follow]}} {{path/to/file}}

Keep reading file until <Ctrl c>, even if the file is inaccessible:

tail {{[-F|--retry --follow]}} {{path/to/file}}

Show last 'num' lines in 'file' and refresh every 'n' seconds:

tail {{[-n|--lines]}} {{count}} {{[-s|--sleep-interval]}} {{seconds}} {{[-f|--follow]}} {{path/to/file}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.