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+.\" tailf.1 -- 
+.\" Created: Thu Jan 11 16:43:10 1996 by faith@acm.org
+.\" Copyright 1996, 2003 Rickard E. Faith (faith@acm.org)
+.\" 
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+.\" 
+.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
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+.\" 
+.TH TAILF 1 "13 February 2003" "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+tailf \- follow the growth of a log file
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.BI tailf " file"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B tailf
+will print out the last 10 lines of a file and then wait for the file to
+grow.  It is similar to
+.B tail -f
+but does not access the file when it is not growing.  This has the side
+effect of not updating the access time for the file, so a filesystem flush
+does not occur periodically when no log activity is happening.
+.PP
+.B tailf
+is extremely useful for monitoring log files on a laptop when logging is
+infrequent and the user desires that the hard disk spin down to conserve
+battery life.
+.SH BUGS
+An option could be provided to print out the last
+.I n
+lines instead of the last 10.
+.SH AUTHOR
+This program was written by Rik Faith (faith@acm.org) and may be freely
+distributed under the terms of the X11/MIT License.  There is ABSOLUTELY
+NO WARRANTY for this program.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR tail "(1), " less "(1)"