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 …

You can think of -f as "follow". When -f is added to tail, the command will not exit but waits to see if more is added to the file; that additional text will be printed by tail. You normally kill a tail -f …

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). …

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 …

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 …

I know we can use below format to redirect the screen output to a file: $ your_program > /tmp/output.txt However when I used below command, it says "-bash: /home/user/errors.txt: …

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 …

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 …

Nov 28, 2013 · Note that not all tail implementation do it or do it properly. For instance busybox 1.21.1 tail is broken in that regard. Also note that the behavior varies when tailing stdin and …

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.