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.