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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man1/tail.1 b/static/openbsd/man1/tail.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..58d2fec7 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man1/tail.1 @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: tail.1,v 1.24 2022/08/03 08:28:19 jsg Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: tail.1,v 1.4 1994/11/23 07:42:13 jtc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)tail.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 3 2022 $ +.Dt TAIL 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm tail +.Nd display the last part of a file +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm tail +.Op Fl f | r +.Oo +.Fl b Ar number | +.Fl c Ar number | +.Fl n Ar number | +.Fl Ar number +.Oc +.Op Ar +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +utility displays the contents of +.Ar file +or, by default, its standard input, to the standard output. +.Pp +The display begins at a byte, line, or 512-byte block location in the +input. +Numbers having a leading plus +.Pq Ql + +sign are relative to the beginning of the input, for example, +.Ic -c +2 +starts the display at the second +byte of the input. +Numbers having a leading minus +.Pq Ql - +sign or no explicit sign are +relative to the end of the input, for example, +.Ic -n 2 +displays the last two lines of the input. +The default starting location is +.Ic -n 10 , +or the last 10 lines of the input. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl b Ar number +The location is +.Ar number +512-byte blocks. +.It Fl c Ar number +The location is +.Ar number +bytes. +.It Fl f +Do not stop when end-of-file is reached; instead, wait for additional +data to be appended to the input. +If the file is replaced (i.e., the inode number changes), +.Nm +will reopen the file and continue. +If the file is truncated, +.Nm +will reset its position to the beginning. +This makes +.Nm +more useful for watching log files that may get rotated. +The +.Fl f +option is ignored if there are no +.Fa file +arguments and the standard input is a pipe or a FIFO. +.It Fl n Ar number | Fl Ar number +The location is +.Ar number +lines. +.It Fl r +The +.Fl r +option causes the input to be displayed in reverse order, by line. +Additionally, this option changes the meaning of the +.Fl b , +.Fl c , +and +.Fl n +options. +When the +.Fl r +option is specified, these options specify the number of bytes, lines +or 512-byte blocks to display, instead of the bytes, lines, or blocks +from the beginning or end of the input from which to begin the display. +The default for the +.Fl r +option is to display all of the input. +.El +.Pp +If more than one file is specified, +.Nm +precedes the output of each file with the following, in order +to distinguish files: +.Pp +.Dl ==> Ar file No <== +.Sh EXIT STATUS +.Ex -std tail +.Sh EXAMPLES +To display the last 500 lines of the file +.Ar foo : +.Pp +.Dl $ tail -500 foo +.Pp +Keep +.Pa /var/log/messages +open, displaying to the standard output anything appended to the file: +.Pp +.Dl $ tail -f /var/log/messages +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr cat 1 , +.Xr head 1 , +.Xr sed 1 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Nm +utility is compliant with the +.St -p1003.1-2008 +specification. +.Pp +The flags +.Op Fl br +are extensions to that specification. +.Pp +The historic command line syntax of +.Nm +is supported by this implementation. +The only difference between this implementation and historic versions +of +.Nm tail , +once the command line syntax translation has been done, is that the +.Fl b , +.Fl c +and +.Fl n +options modify the +.Fl r +option, i.e., +.Ic -r -c 4 +displays the last 4 characters of the last line +of the input, while the historic tail (using the historic syntax +.Ic -4cr ) +would ignore the +.Fl c +option and display the last 4 lines of the input. +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm +command first appeared outside of Bell Labs in PWB/UNIX 1.0. |
