On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 01:48:38PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> It will be useful if we can print out the last n lines instead of the last
> 10, just like tail.
>
> There are examples:
>
> tailf -n 5 file1
> tailf --lines 10 file2
> tailf -20 file3
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, thanks. Note, I'm going to cleanup error messages (err.h
stuff), so ignore this things for now.
BTW, What about use inotify subsystem for tailf? This method is
definitely more effective than sleep() & stat().
...but, the tailf is probably not well known command (yet?).
Karel
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