Turbotail is a drop-in replacement for the original tail program. This version uses the 'DNOTIFY' kernel-api (Linux only) which enables programs to look in a more efficient way if a file has changed or not: the original tail program (at least the GNU one) polls every second(!) for file changes for each file it monitors. Due to the use of DNOTIFY, this tail should react instantly to file changes.
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- make to create the executable.
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- make install to copy turbotail to /usr/bin Type make installreplace to get the original tail renamed to /usr/bin/tail.org and have turbotail copied to /usr/bin/tail