>>>>> "Galen" == Galen Seitz <[email protected]> writes:
Tim> Is there a way to use less, or a less-like viewer, to view a Tim> growing file such that as the file grows, paging down will get me Tim> more and more content? Tim> As far as I can tell, just running 'less myfile.txt', when Tim> myfile.txt is being written to by another app, seems to just take Tim> a snapshot of myfile.txt -- I want to be able to look at the full Tim> extent of the file AS IT GROWS, to monitor ongoing long Tim> computations to see how they're doing. Tim> If you're tempted to just answer with "you don't want to do that" Tim> -- no, I do indeed want to do that, and I have good reason. Galen> When I want to do that, I typically press 'G', followed by 'F'. Galen> From the man page: Galen> F Scroll forward, and keep trying to read when the end of file Galen> is reached. Normally this command would be used when already Galen> at the end of the file. It is a way to monitor the tail of a Galen> file which is growing while it is being viewed. (The behavior Galen> is similar to the "tail -f" command.) +1 -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
