sfftail (Sat Oct 25 2014 01:31:01)

sfftail

Tail for NT

Input Parameters are :
	-r : reverse the file			default: no
		Not valid with '-f'
	-f : keep watching			default: no
	-99 : read that many lines		default: 20 lines
	-a : all the file please		default: 20 lines
	-o : output individual lines in this folder	default: none
	-H : FipHdr fields to add to output	default: none
	-t : scan time				default: 1sec
		maximum is 600 secs (ie 5mins)
	-x : output HTML end of lines.. for single shots only
	-v : version number and stop
	filename as last parameter OR read from stdin

For those switches with parameters, the parameter MUST NOT be separated by a
space.

Eg
	cat $1 | sfftail -80
	sfftail -f /fip/log/ALL
	sfftail -f100 oinky

The maximum number of lines is 1000 to a maximum of 8000 characters.

The output line function will ONLY output new lines UNLESS -a or a number of
lines is specified.
The name of output file is 'SFFTAIL-(Date)-(Time)-(Seqno).fip'


Version Control
;004	31may05 added -x

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