Well what do you know. And it looks like using -F instead of -f will even handle the "file is inaccessible" issue magically, at least on Linux. Oh, how I love unix untilities.
"Remember kids," said the old man, "never doubt Sean." ; ) cheers, barneyb On 1/25/06, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ > Got frameworks? -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360.319.6145 http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 100 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230462 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
