On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:04:59AM -0500, Hunter Peress wrote:
> there needs to be a way for tail to not wrap lines.
Why? tail doesn't modify the data that it reads, which seems to me to
be a sound principle.
> it would be useful for live monitoring an apache log (with tail -f)
> while piping it through grep .
>
>
> currently i can do less -S and then hit shift-F , but i cant grep
> anything like this.
Why not just use
tail -f .... | expand | cut -c1-80 | grep ... ?
James.
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