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 …

tail -f fill not retry and load the new inode, tail -F will detect this. The same effect will happen if you rename/move a file. If you for example follows /var/log/messages and logrotate rotates the log …

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). …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

@OlivierDulac, tail -n +1 (read anything from the start position) addresses the race condition concerns. It will read the lines that were not in the file at the time wc -l terminated, from the …

From the tail man page (GNU tail, that is):-n, --lines=K output the last K lines, instead of the last 10; or use -n +K to output lines starting with the Kth Thus, the following should append all but …