On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Tim Wescott 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?
Tim,
Haven't tried this, but if one can watch a log file, such as
/var/log/maillog, as it has rows appended to the bottom, then it should work
for any file, yes?
How about 'tail -f mygrowingfile.txt'?
man tail:
"-f, --follow[={name|descriptor}] output appended data as the file grows; -f,
--follow, and --f
ollow=descriptor are equivalent"
Rich
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