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MTAIL(1)							   User Commands							  MTAIL(1)

NAME

       mtail - tail variant designed for web developers monitoring logfiles

SYNOPSIS

       mtail [options]	<file>...

DESCRIPTION

       MonkeyTail  allows  a  user to tail multiple files on both local and remote hosts and clearly marks inactivity by putting 5 newlines in the
       output whenever a pause in output over 3 seconds is detected.

       MonkeyTail is implemented a fairly simple wrapper script around standard tail, ssh, and sudo.

OPTIONS

       -q     Quiet mode

       --quiet
	      "    "

       -n     Output the last N lines of each file before tailing (defaults to 0)

       <file>...
	      Files to tail.

	      These can specified in the following ways:

       @<groupname>
	      - expands the group (from .mtailrc) to a list of

	      files to tail

       <filename>
	      - tails a local file.

       +<filename>		- attempts to sudo and tail a local file (will
	      prompt for pwd if required).

       <remotehost>:<filename>
	      - attempts to invoke tail via ssh on a remote

	      host.

       +<remotehost>:<filename> - attempts to invoke sudo tail via ssh on a
	      remote host (will prompt for pwd if required).

SEE ALSO

       mtailrc(5), tail(1)

AUTHOR

       Martyn Smith <martyn@dollyfish.net.nz>

mtail								     May 2008								  MTAIL(1)

TAIL(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   TAIL(1)

NAME

       tail - deliver the last part of a file

SYNOPSIS

       tail [ +-number[lbc][rf] ] [ file ]

       tail [ -fr ] [ -n nlines ] [ -c nbytes ] [ file ]

DESCRIPTION

       Tail copies the named file to the standard output beginning at a designated place.  If no file is named, the standard input is copied.

       Copying	begins	at  position  +number  measured  from the beginning, or -number from the end of the input.  Number is counted in lines, 1K
       blocks or bytes, according to the appended flag or Default is -10l (ten ell).

       The further flag causes tail to print lines from the end of the file in reverse order; (follow) causes tail, after printing to the end,	to
       keep watch and print further data as it appears.

       The second syntax is that promulgated by POSIX, where the numbers rather than the options are signed.

EXAMPLES

       tail file
	      Print the last 10 lines of a file.

       tail +0f file
	      Print a file, and continue to watch data accumulate as it grows.

       sed 10q file
	      Print the first 10 lines of a file.

SOURCE

       /src/cmd/tail.c

BUGS

       Tails relative to the end of the file are treasured up in a buffer, and thus are limited in length.

       According to custom, option +number counts lines from 1, and counts blocks and bytes from 0.

       Tail is ignorant of UTF.

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