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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-12-28 10:09:20 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-12-28 10:09:20 +0000
commitd0ae8b3626d85a2c087bc5f7767993ee880487af (patch)
tree10ddaff32f20ace314a98ea55524da3a4d484e1c /usr.bin/tail/tail.1
parentce1ee5ad6c435a24cef0682af85e64158864562b (diff)
- less macros needed in SYNOPSIS
- sort options
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/tail/tail.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/tail/tail.114
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 b/usr.bin/tail/tail.1
index a3fc46b6bb6..e12b818cb66 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tail/tail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/tail/tail.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: tail.1,v 1.13 2006/10/02 07:56:22 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tail.1,v 1.14 2006/12/28 10:09:19 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: tail.1,v 1.4 1994/11/23 07:42:13 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1991, 1993
@@ -41,14 +41,14 @@
.Nd display the last part of a file
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm tail
-.Op Fl f Li | Fl r
+.Op Fl f | r
.Oo
.Fl b Ar number |
.Fl c Ar number |
.Fl n Ar number |
.Fl Ns Ar number
.Oc
-.Op Ar file ...
+.Op Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
@@ -84,10 +84,6 @@ The location is
The location is
.Ar number
bytes.
-.It Fl n Ar number \*(Ba Fl Ns Ar number
-The location is
-.Ar number
-lines.
.It Fl f
Do not stop when end-of-file is reached; instead, wait for additional
data to be appended to the input.
@@ -103,6 +99,10 @@ more useful for watching log files that may get rotated.
The
.Fl f
option is ignored if the standard input is a pipe, but not if it is a FIFO.
+.It Fl n Ar number \*(Ba Fl Ns Ar number
+The location is
+.Ar number
+lines.
.It Fl r
The
.Fl r