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author | Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-04-02 04:28:59 +0000 |
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committer | Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-04-02 04:28:59 +0000 |
commit | fd18c8aea30e1749771b68d75a8a90c97f98ef31 (patch) | |
tree | 547e22bb3c9512d510846e6d169bf43beed686bc /misc/xtail/pkg-descr | |
parent | Turn on the icecast port. (diff) |
Import of xtail version 0.1.
Watches the growth of files or directories.
PR: 9672
Submitted by: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>
Notes
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svn path=/head/; revision=17551
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diff --git a/misc/xtail/pkg-descr b/misc/xtail/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..060a29e2e42e --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/xtail/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +"xtail" watches the growth of files. It's like running a "tail -f" +on a bunch of files at once. + +You can specify both filenames and directories on the command line. +If you specify a directory, it watches all the files in that +directory. It will notice when new files are created (and start +watching them) or when old files are deleted (and stop watching +them). + +This program is an oldie but goodie. It was posted to comp.sources.misc +in July 1989 (see ftp.uu.net:/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume7/xtail.Z). +I remember posting an even earlier version to alt.sources. It has +been published in the O'Reilly & Associates "Unix Power Tools" +collection (book and CD-ROM). +Over the years, some fly-by-night organizations (such as the MIT +X Consortium and SGI) have tried to steal the "xtail" name. Don't +be fooled! Insist on the original. + +The 1989 release credited David Dykstra for his contributions. + +Chip Rosenthal +<chip@unicom.com> + +- ported to FreeBSD by Gianmarco (gmarco@giovannelli.it) |