s6-portable-utils: the s6-tail program
Keywords: s6-portable-utils command s6-tail tail

s6-portable-utils
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# The `s6-tail` program

s6-tail prints a file or its stdin after a certain number of bytes or lines.

## Interface

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

s6-tail acts as the generic tail utility, except that the -f option is not supported.

## Posixness

s6-tail is not suitable as a Single Unix tail program; however, if you are never using the `-f` functionality, s6-tail scrupulously follows the rest of the specification.