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tail has two special command line option -f and -F (follow) that allows a file to be monitored. Instead of just displaying the last few lines and exiting, tail displays the lines and then monitors the file. As new lines are added to the file by another process, tail updates the display. This is particularly useful for monitoring log files.
This is a list of commands from the GNU Core Utilities for Unix environments. These commands can be found on Unix operating systems and most Unix-like operating systems. GNU Core Utilities include basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities. Coreutils includes all of the basic command-line tools that are expected in a POSIX system.
This is a list of POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) commands as specified by IEEE Std 1003.1-2024, which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). These commands can be found on Unix operating systems and most Unix-like operating systems.
BusyBox is a software suite that provides several Unix utilities in a single executable file.It runs in a variety of POSIX environments such as Linux, Android, [8] and FreeBSD, [9] although many of the tools it provides are designed to work with interfaces provided by the Linux kernel.
List of GNU Core Utilities commands; List of Unix commands; Toybox, a 0BSD licensed, all-in-one Linux command-line utility used in Android. util-linux, a set of approximately 100 basic Linux system utilities not included in GNU Core Utilities, such as mount, fdisk, more, and kill.
COMMAND.COM, the original Microsoft command line processor introduced on MS-DOS as well as Windows 9x, in 32-bit versions of NT-based Windows via NTVDM; cmd.exe, successor of COMMAND.COM introduced on OS/2 and Windows NT systems, although COMMAND.COM is still available in virtual DOS machines on IA-32 versions of those operating systems also.
The collection was last updated externally on April 15, 2003, by Karl M. Syring. The most recent release package available as of December 2016 [update] was an open-source project, UnxUtils at SourceForge , with the latest binary release in March, 2007 (though the files within are dated from the year 2000).
a - number all lines; t - number lines with printable text only; n - no line numbering; string - number only those lines containing the regular expression defined in the string supplied. The default applied switch is t. nl also supports some command line options.