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0.2.2 | Nov 12, 2019 |
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0.2.1 | Nov 10, 2019 |
0.2.0 | Nov 10, 2019 |
0.1.0 | Nov 10, 2019 |
#1566 in Development tools
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ptail 🔱
ptail
is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes. Unlike tail -f
it will not
show more than the specified number of lines in your terminal.
This could be useful if you are executing a command as part of a shell script and you do not wish to show the full and verbose output, but you do want to be able to see what is happening.
Examples ⭐
Running a command
This will execute brew bundle install --global
and only show the last 20 lines. The --
is required to prevent
--global
being interpreted as part of the ptail
command.
ptail -n 20 -- brew bundle install --global
tail -f
equivalent
If you don't specify a command it will read from stdin:
tail -f /var/log/verbose-log | ptail -n 20
Install 💿
Homebrew (MacOS + Linux)
brew tap orf/brew
, then brew install ptail
Arch Linux
There is an AUR package for ptail
:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/ptail.git
cd ptail
makepkg -si
Binaries (Windows)
Download the latest release from the github releases page. Extract it
and move it to a directory on your PATH
.
Cargo
cargo install ptail
Dependencies
~6–15MB
~167K SLoC