coreutils/src/uu/tail/README.md

Rudimentary tail implementation.

## Missing features:

### Flags with features
* `--max-unchanged-stats` : with `--follow=name`, reopen a FILE which has not changed size after N (default 5) iterations  to see if it has been unlinked or renamed (this is the usual case of rotated log files).  With inotify, this option is rarely useful.
* `--retry` : keep trying to open a file even when it is or becomes inaccessible; useful when follow‐ing by name, i.e., with `--follow=name`

### Others
The current implementation does not handle `-` as an alias for stdin.

## Possible optimizations:
* Don't read the whole file if not using `-f` and input is regular file. Read in chunks from the end going backwards, reading each individual chunk forward.
-												tail: fix readme typo

Signed-off-by: Akira Hayakawa <ruby.wktk@gmail.com>

											
										
										
											2014-07-01 02:26:18 +00:00
+								Rudimentary tail implementation.
-												Rudamentary tail implementation.

For specific info on missing features and optimizations,
look at tail/README.md

											
										
										
											2014-06-12 21:27:37 +00:00
-												tail: squashed two commits

commit ceaeb5ec2a284555e6c061070c74b050efb129f0
Author: Bulat Musin <bulatmusin@outlook.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 4 11:01:29 2018 +0300

    tail: fix typo

commit 50e3568e460c7ec9786835c9795d1496a2463901
Author: Bulat Musin <bulatmusin@outlook.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 4 10:54:17 2018 +0300

    collapse similar changes into one commit

    commit a54df8d92d534b801b364c2e74635dfe282441d8
    Author: Bulat Musin <bulatmusin@outlook.com>
    Date:   Wed Jan 3 21:05:33 2018 +0300

        tail: add --silent option

    commit 5c9aec7e5bb5ff79f1421e5b33bf82809795bc64
    Author: Bulat Musin <bulatmusin@outlook.com>
    Date:   Wed Jan 3 20:43:36 2018 +0300

        tail: add spaces after hashes

											
										
										
											2018-01-04 11:47:19 +00:00
+								## Missing features:
-												Rudamentary tail implementation.

For specific info on missing features and optimizations,
look at tail/README.md

											
										
										
											2014-06-12 21:27:37 +00:00
 								### Flags with features
 								* `--max-unchanged-stats` : with `--follow=name`, reopen a FILE which has not changed size after N (default 5) iterations  to see if it has been unlinked or renamed (this is the usual case of rotated log files).  With inotify, this option is rarely useful.
 								* `--retry` : keep trying to open a file even when it is or becomes inaccessible; useful when follow‐ing by name, i.e., with `--follow=name`
 								### Others
 								The current implementation does not handle `-` as an alias for stdin.
-												tail: squashed two commits

commit ceaeb5ec2a284555e6c061070c74b050efb129f0
Author: Bulat Musin <bulatmusin@outlook.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 4 11:01:29 2018 +0300

    tail: fix typo

commit 50e3568e460c7ec9786835c9795d1496a2463901
Author: Bulat Musin <bulatmusin@outlook.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 4 10:54:17 2018 +0300

    collapse similar changes into one commit

    commit a54df8d92d534b801b364c2e74635dfe282441d8
    Author: Bulat Musin <bulatmusin@outlook.com>
    Date:   Wed Jan 3 21:05:33 2018 +0300

        tail: add --silent option

    commit 5c9aec7e5bb5ff79f1421e5b33bf82809795bc64
    Author: Bulat Musin <bulatmusin@outlook.com>
    Date:   Wed Jan 3 20:43:36 2018 +0300

        tail: add spaces after hashes

											
										
										
											2018-01-04 11:47:19 +00:00
+								## Possible optimizations:
-												Rudamentary tail implementation.

For specific info on missing features and optimizations,
look at tail/README.md

											
										
										
											2014-06-12 21:27:37 +00:00
+								* Don't read the whole file if not using `-f` and input is regular file. Read in chunks from the end going backwards, reading each individual chunk forward.