Re: script to tail latest logfile in a directory?

[Scott D. Yelich]

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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Dave Sill wrote:
> "Scott D. Yelich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >What's wrong with something like: tail -f `ls -rt | tail -1`
> Doesn't notice when a new file is created, which cyclog is want to do.
> -Dave

Um...  so is the trigger a new file has been created or no more input is
being put into the file? Each one of those begs a question...  the first
is, do you want to "tail" or "cat" each and every new file that is
generated and the other is "just when do you know that no more input has
been received?" It wouldn't be all that difficult to write a command
that came close to doing those although they seem arbitrarily complicated.

Scott



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