Hi This is about tail v5.97 I have a log file that is updated every 5mn, a timestamped message being appended to a new line at the end On the third time an indentical message would be writen, the last line is replaced by "..." then the message is writen
Tracking changes with tail -f stops after this, which may be intended behaviour as man states "as the file grows". Although, when pruning a bunch of lines from the head of the file, then a yet running tracking still won't update even the file size grows, like if the file size was grabbed on the very beginning of the command and never updated on each iteration. To be honest, I didn't try to see what happens if I prune a single line and see what the next 2nd and further iterations show.
