`tail` is just loading the last bytes of a file. If the server supports byte ranges you can do this with `curl` over http as well: Last 100 bytes of a website:

`tail` is just loading the last bytes of a file. If the server supports byte ranges you can do this with `curl` over http as well: Last 100 bytes of a website: $ curl -sr -100 https://example.com An approximation of `tail -f`: $ watch -n10 curl -sr -100 https://example.com