Manual: rust-tail
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NAME
tail - Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header
giving the file name. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long flags are
mandatory for short flags too.
SYNOPSIS
tail [-c|--bytes] [-f|--follow] [-n|--lines] [--pid] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--sleep-interval] [--max-unchanged-stats]
[-v|--verbose] [-z|--zero-terminated] [--use-polling] [--retry] [-F ] [--debug] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [files]
DESCRIPTION
Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving
the file name. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long flags are manda‐
tory for short flags too.
OPTIONS
-c, --bytes
Number of bytes to print
-f, --follow
Print the file as it grows
Possible values:
• descriptor
• name
-n, --lines
Number of lines to print
--pid
With -f, terminate after process ID, PID dies
-q, --quiet
Never output headers giving file names
-s, --sleep-interval
Number of seconds to sleep between polling the file when running with -f
--max-unchanged-stats
Reopen a FILE which has not changed size after N (default 5) iterations to see if it has been unlinked or re‐
named (this is the usual case of rotated log files); This option is meaningful only when polling (i.e., with
--use-polling) and when --follow=name
-v, --verbose
Always output headers giving file names
-z, --zero-terminated
Line delimiter is NUL, not newline
--use-polling
Disable 'inotify' support and use polling instead
--retry
Keep trying to open a file if it is inaccessible
-F Same as --follow=name --retry
--debug
indicate which --follow implementation is used
-h, --help
Print help
-V, --version
Print version
[files]
VERSION
v(uutils coreutils) 0.8.0
2026-04-16 TAIL(1)