Comments on: Continuous Monitoring With Tail Fails

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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:08:57 +0000

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By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:36:22 +0000

@Greg: less is not an ideal replacement for tail as less is more a viewer in itself while tail puts its output on stdout so that it can be piped and used by other programs. I could be wrong though as I haven’t used less much.

By: Greg Allt

Greg Allt — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:01:31 +0000

what about less +F filename

I tried this with you test and received the appropriate result. As text was added to the file, it was echoed in the less statement.

less +F keeps the file open and prints lines as they are added.

By: Sébastien Carrillo

Sébastien Carrillo — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:53:11 +0000

You can also use the psionic logtail : “ASCII file tail program that remembers last position”

By: jco

jco — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:11:46 +0000

See also perl’s File:Tail module for added flexibility.

JMTC, jco

By: prashant

prashant — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:23:27 +0000

dude i have used tail for ages but never noticed what just explained , as i never modified a file being monitored.I mainly used it for monitoring debug logs from app server i am working on. But thanks for the headsup, now that u have explained it my hairs are safe now ..