#!/bin/bash

set -eu

args=$(getopt -o "" -l "follow,lines:" -n "$0" -- "$@")
eval set -- "${args}"

follow=""
lines=""

while true; do
    case "$1" in
    --follow) follow="--follow --retry --quiet"; shift;; # same as -F. to make it work if file doesn't exist, --quiet to not output file headers, which are no logs
    --lines) lines="$2"; shift 2;;
    --) break;;
    *) echo "Unknown option $1"; exit 1;;
    esac
done

# first sort the existing log lines
tail --quiet --lines=${lines} -- "$@"  | sort -k1

exec tail ${follow} --lines=0 "$@"