sbase

commit a5cc60f2e0efc69c2c80c046ab18e4370bbdff51
parent c0d36e0064f22738982d11cedb910f027aae3cf6
Author: FRIGN <dev@frign.de>
Date:   Mon,  9 Feb 2015 16:26:17 +0100

Refactor tail(1) manpage and update README

It's not finished yet. We still need the c-flag.

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2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The following tools are implemented ('*' == finished, '#' == UTF-8 support,
 =* sponge          non-posix                    none
    strings         no                           -a, -n, -t
 =* sync            non-posix                    none
-=  tail            no                           -c, -f
+=  tail            no                           -c
 =* tar             non-posix                    none
 =* tee             yes                          none
    test            yes                          none
diff --git a/tail.1 b/tail.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.Dd January 30, 2015
+.Dd February 9, 2015
 .Dt TAIL 1
 .Os sbase
 .Sh NAME
@@ -6,21 +6,33 @@
 .Nd display final lines of files
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm
-.Op Fl n Ar lines
-.Op Ar file
+.Op Fl f
+.Op Fl n Ar num
+.Op Ar file ...
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 .Nm
-writes the last 10 lines of the file to stdout. If no
+writes the last 10 lines of each
+.Ar file
+to stdout. If no
 .Ar file
 is given,
 .Nm
 reads from stdin.
 .Sh OPTIONS
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl f
+If one
+.Ar file
+is specified, append lines to output as
+.Ar file
+grows.
 .It Fl n Ar lines
-Outputs the given number of lines. If
-.Ar lines
-begins with '+' it is used as an offset from the beginning of the file.
+Display
+.Ar num
+lines. If
+.Ar num
+begins with '+' it is used as an offset from the beginning of each
+.Ar file .
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr head 1