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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tail

This article spotlights alternative tools to the command-line tail utility.

btail is a command-line utility for viewing the tail of files with an interactive terminal user interface.

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inotail is a replacement for the ‘tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux system.

colortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files where it’s specified which patterns results in which colors.

ptail is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes.

retail can output that part of a file (or pipe) following the last match of a regular expression,