On 1/25/06, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What if you need 11 lines?  Or 50?  Easier to scroll back a terminal
> window

tail -f shows *all* continuous output, just as if you had it printing
to the console anyway. You can scroll back in Terminal as much as you
need.

If the file doesn't exist, simply use touch to create it then tail -f
will show *everything* that gets written into the file.
--
Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/
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-- Margaret Atwood

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