tail

• tail -f or tail --follow=descriptor (As of version 7.5 of coreutils tail --follow uses inotify to avoid polling for changes)
• tail --follow=name
• tail -qF

-q quiet

tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log

• Remove first line: tail -n +2

Related

• journalctl -f
• tail (PAN-OS)
• kubectl logs --tail=35
• stern
• Fluentbit tail: Fluent Bit tail input
• ktail
• oura
• docker-compose logs --tail=100 -f
• Amazon CloudWatch Live Tail (2023)
• tee -a

See also

• Files: tail, mtail, promtail, aws logs tail, ktail, stern, kubectl logs
• cat (man), cat -A, tac, more, less, tail, mtail, echo, stdin, tr, column, paste, truncate, logrotate, xzcat pv, progress, sort, ncat, virt-cat, awk, join, col, fold, tee, sponge, nfs-cat, journalctl, ccat, icat, EOF, lolcat, bat
• ack, ag, ripgrep, grep, egrep, fgrep, agrep, ngrep, pgrep, awk, sed, strings, tr, tail, mtail, git grep, wc, uniq, LogQL, findstr (Windows), rg, git-grep, cut
• file, File system, directory, touch, mkdir, ls, ln truncate, fallocate, split, stat, inode, File descriptor, superblock, block size (blockdev), fuser, lsof, scrub, chattr, ulimit (nofiles), cp, mv, file (command), mkfifo, chmod