I need to be able to navigate around the whole file, not just look at the end. Bill's answer sounds like my solution.
On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 14:18 -0700, Ronald Bynoe wrote: > Why not just tail -f myfile.txt? > > On Sep 25, 2014 2:17 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. > > If you're tempted to just answer with "you don't want to do > that" -- no, > I do indeed want to do that, and I have good reason. > > -- > > Tim Wescott > www.wescottdesign.com > Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. > Phone: 503.631.7815 > Cell: 503.349.8432 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. Phone: 503.631.7815 Cell: 503.349.8432 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
