You can also do a tail -f Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax: 509.375.2330 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Barry Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:22 PM To: [email protected]; Portland Linux/Unix Group Subject: Re: [PLUG] Using less on a growing file On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Tim Wescott <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way to use less, or a less-like viewer, to view a growing > file such that as the file grows, paging down will get me more and > more content? > > As far as I can tell, just running 'less myfile.txt', when myfile.txt > is being written to by another app, seems to just take a snapshot of > myfile.txt -- I want to be able to look at the full extent of the file > AS IT GROWS, to monitor ongoing long computations to see how they're > doing. less itself works that way. shift-g will reveal anything new added to myfile.txt after you opened it with less. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
