Re: [MLUG] tail command & scripting

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 02:54:58PM -0500, Ross, Matt wrote:
> I'm sure many are familiar with this command, but being still a newbie in
> many areas, I just found out about it today.  With its obvious use in
> reading error logs, I find it hard to believe I haven't seen it in manuals
> or scripting guides before.  If you are like me, and haven't found out about
> this command, it reads the last 10 lines of a file and outputs them for you.
> You can -n a different range if you need more (or less?) of the file also,
> making this ideal for debugging.  Before I had been grep'ing what I needed
> by assumed timestamp or filename.
> 

Oh, the most important option for tail is -f (follow).

Regards,
Mark
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