S6-TAIL(1)

📦 version 2.3.1.2, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 s6-tail(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the s6-tail(1) page from the General Commands Manual — it’s giving “tail but make it s6,” and we’re gonna read it together, no cap ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

s6-tail — print a file or its stdin after a certain number of bytes or lines

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

s6-tail [-n lines | -c chars] [file]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

s6-tail acts as the generic tail utility[1], bestie — same iconic energy — except that the -f option is not supported. Periodt 💅

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

  • 111 — Temporary error.
  • 100 — Permanent error, such as a misuse.
  • 127 — Unable to execute program - not found.
  • 126 — Unable to execute program - other reason.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-chown(1), s6-clock(1), s6-cut(1), s6-dirname(1), s6-dumpenv(1), s6-echo(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-head(1), s6-hiercopy(1), s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkdir(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nice(1), s6-nuke(1), s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-quote-filter(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1), s6-sort(1), s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-touch(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1), s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1)

This man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-tail.html

👑 STANDARDS 👑

s6-tail is not suitable as a tail[1] program conforming to ; however, if you are never using the -f functionality, s6-tail scrupulously follows the rest of the specification. (yes, that semicolon situation is exactly what the original says — iykyk 😭)

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Laurent Bercot Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

source/version: Debian · date: April 17, 2022 — mwah, that’s the cute little sign-off, bestie 💋🎀

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