NAME

       nqtail — job queue log viewer

SYNOPSIS

       nqtail [-a] [-n] [-q] [job id ...]

DESCRIPTION

       nqtail is a simple utility for “following” the output of nq(1) jobs.

       Without  arguments,  the  output  of the currently running and queued as-of-now jobs is emitted; else the
       presented job ids are used.

       nqtail automatically terminates after the corresponding jobs are done.

       The options are as follows:

       -a      Output all log files, even of already finished jobs.

       -n      Don't wait for new output.  Can be used to look at enqueued commands.

       -q      Only print the first line of each job output (i.e. the exec line).

ENVIRONMENT

       NQDIR   Directory where lock files/job output resides, see nq(1).

EXIT STATUS

       The nqtail utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

INTERNALS

       On Linux, inotify(7) is used to monitor job output.  On FreeBSD and macOS, kqueue(2) is used.   On  other
       operating systems, polling is used.

SEE ALSO

       nq(1), nqterm(1)

AUTHORS

       Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>

LICENSE

       nqtail is in the public domain.

       To  the  extent  possible  under  law,  the  creator of this work has waived all copyright and related or
       neighboring rights to this work.

       http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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