Does “less” have a feature like “tail –follow=name” (“-F”)
The command less can be used to replace tail in
tail
How do I “cat and follow” a file?
A file is being sequentially downloaded by wget.
Is it possible to follow a command (run repeatedly)? as one would follow a file using tail -f?
I have a script which produces a file ‘Detail.out’. I know that the script is completed whenever the file contains a certain number of lines (roughly 21025). So I find myself sitting at the command prompt running:
Why xargs can’t work with tail -f?
I want tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep it with pattern “arpwatch” and send every line to myself via jabber: xmpp [email protected] using xargs
Is there a way to make tail -F beep?
Is there a way to make tail -F or less beep (ring the bell in a terminal) when new data comes in (a new line is added to the file).
Or is there any other unix utility to do this on a linux or mac.
How does the “tail” command’s “-f” parameter work?
$ tail -f testfile the command is supposed to show the latest entries in the specified file, in real-time right? But that’s not happening. Please correct me, if what I intend it to do is wrong… I created a new file “aaa” and added a line of text and closed it. then issued this command … Read more
How to monitor only the last n lines of a log file?
I have a growing log file for which I want to display only the last 15 lines. Here is what I know I can do:
What is the difference between “tail -f” and “tail -F”?
I never used tail -F command instead always used tail -f however someone told me that -F is better without much explanation.
View only the new entries in a growing log file
-n, –lines=K
output the last K lines, instead of the last 10; or use -n +K to output lines starting with the Kth