From the tail(1) man page: With --follow (-f), tail defaults to following the file descriptor, which means that even if a tail’ed file is renamed, tail will continue to track its end. This default …

Aug 22, 2017 · Answers differ based on context. To quit tail -f elegantly, you will need a trigger. Assume you are trying to monitor output of a task that will finish at some point in time - that …

Jan 1, 2014 · grep "2014-01-01 21:" log.txt; tail -f log.txt It will print everything from that hour, and keep tailing. or you can also use awk to print everything from start of an certain hour to end of …

In addition, tail will not read any more than head, so thus we have shown that head | tail reads the fewest number of lines possible (again, plus some negligible buffering that we are ignoring). …

tmux new-window -a -n Tail tmux new-session -d -s Tail -n SSH0 -d tmux selectp -t Tail #This is tmux interactions with the user (colors of the tabs used, hot keys, etc.) tmux bind-key -n M-Left …

Nov 28, 2013 · Barring your files don't include strange characters in their names, such as spaces, new lines, etc. A simple pipe to tail -n 200 should suffice. Example. Sample data. $ touch …

tail -F *.txt uses for reading multiple files is better than less +F *.txt. In contrast, using less +F error_log.txt (using Ctrl-C & F to unload/load the new data) is better than tail -F error_log.txt for …

Use --follow=name in that case. That causes tail to track the named file in a way that accommodates renaming, removal and creation. So, the tail portion of my command equates …

Jan 30, 2014 · Try out multitail¹.This is an übergeneralization of tail -f.You can watch multiple files in separate windows, highlight lines based on their content, and more.

Then, read from it. You can always do that with things like tail, to minimize output, etc. Whenever you clear the pipe (read from it), it gets cleared, so the output is not preserved. The other …