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-f: Follow along forever, outputting appended data as the file grows.

-v: Print headers giving file names.

-x: Expand tabs into the number of spaces specified by the TABS environment variable or into 8 spaces if TABS is undefined.

-?: Display program description.

Note: If the environment variable TAIL exists, its value is used to establish default options.

Note: You can override an option that was specified in the environment variable by following the option with a minus '-' sign. For example, to turn off the -voption, specify -v-.

Note: If the environment variable TABS exists, its value will determine the number of spaces used to expand tabs. Otherwise, tabs are expanded to 8 spaces.

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About Common Utilities

Cisco Support Tools 1.0 User Guide How to Use the Tail Utility 267