Updated: multitail-6.3-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows

2015-02-13 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.34 with gcc-4.9.2 o Added Oracle WebLogic and Oracle GoldenGate logfile highlightning multitail NEWS: === - status line fixes (some info was

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: multitail-6.3-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows

2015-02-13 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.34 with gcc-4.9.2 o Added Oracle WebLogic and Oracle GoldenGate logfile highlightning multitail NEWS: === - status line fixes (some info was

Re: bzr emacs(24.4.50.1) crashes when using auto-revert-tail-mode

2014-06-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/20/2014 10:32 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:27:14 +0100 From: Ken Brown Why did you need to step through the Glib code? AFAIU, the file monitor did trigger, so what I would first look at is the data it delivers back to Emacs, not how the monitor works internally.

Re: bzr emacs(24.4.50.1) crashes when using auto-revert-tail-mode

2014-06-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
some_file You mean C-x C-f M-x auto-revert-tail-mode wait for few seconds - emacs crashes I can confirm this, but on 32-bit Cygwin only; there's no crash on 64-bit Cygwin. (This is a refreshing change from the emacs crashes people have been reporting on 64-bit Cygwin

Re: bzr emacs(24.4.50.1) crashes when using auto-revert-tail-mode

2014-06-20 Thread Ken Brown
to reproduce: emacs -Q C-x C-r some_file You mean C-x C-f M-x auto-revert-tail-mode wait for few seconds - emacs crashes I can confirm this, but on 32-bit Cygwin only; there's no crash on 64-bit Cygwin. (This is a refreshing change from the emacs crashes people have been reporting on 64

Re: bzr emacs(24.4.50.1) crashes when using auto-revert-tail-mode

2014-06-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/18/2014 1:46 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/18/2014 11:06 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote: I'm not sure whether this is Cygwin-specific, but I'm not able to test it on other OS, so here are the steps to reproduce: emacs -Q C-x C-r some_file You mean C-x C-f M-x auto-revert-tail-mode wait

Re: bzr emacs(24.4.50.1) crashes when using auto-revert-tail-mode

2014-06-19 Thread Filipp Gunbin
Ken, On 18/06/2014 21:46 +0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/18/2014 11:06 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote: C-x C-r some_file You mean C-x C-f I did C-x C-r but that should not matter. M-x auto-revert-tail-mode wait for few seconds - emacs crashes I can confirm this, but on 32-bit Cygwin only

Re: bzr emacs(24.4.50.1) crashes when using auto-revert-tail-mode

2014-06-19 Thread Filipp Gunbin
On 19/06/2014 17:11 +0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/18/2014 1:46 PM, Ken Brown wrote: I'm afraid I ran into a brick wall trying to debug this. I wanted to see what gfile-add-watch was doing, so I ran emacs under gdb with a breakpoint at Fgfile_add_watch and then a breakpoint at g_file_monitor

bzr emacs(24.4.50.1) crashes when using auto-revert-tail-mode

2014-06-18 Thread Filipp Gunbin
I'm not sure whether this is Cygwin-specific, but I'm not able to test it on other OS, so here are the steps to reproduce: emacs -Q C-x C-r some_file M-x auto-revert-tail-mode wait for few seconds - emacs crashes Filipp -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: bzr emacs(24.4.50.1) crashes when using auto-revert-tail-mode

2014-06-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/18/2014 11:06 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote: I'm not sure whether this is Cygwin-specific, but I'm not able to test it on other OS, so here are the steps to reproduce: emacs -Q C-x C-r some_file You mean C-x C-f M-x auto-revert-tail-mode wait for few seconds - emacs crashes I can confirm

[64bit] multitail-5.2.12-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows

2013-04-29 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new 64bit version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.19 with gcc-4.8.0 o Added Oracle WebLogic and Oracle GoldenGate logfile highlightning multitail NEWS: === o No NEWS file available

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: multitail-5.2.12-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows

2013-04-28 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.18 with gcc-4.5.3 multitail NEWS: === o No NEWS file available CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: multitail-5.2.10-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows

2012-11-26 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.16 with gcc-4.5.3 multitail NEWS: === o Added -N which sets the initial tail lines count for all following inputs o Configuration file parameter

Updated: multitail-5.2.10-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows

2012-11-26 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.16 with gcc-4.5.3 multitail NEWS: === o Added -N which sets the initial tail lines count for all following inputs o Configuration file parameter

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: multitail-5.2.9-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows

2012-09-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.16 with gcc-4.5.3 o Uses cygport-0.11.0 for .hint files generation o debuginfo package included multitail NEWS: === o No NEWS available

Updated: multitail-5.2.9-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows

2012-09-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.16 with gcc-4.5.3 o Uses cygport-0.11.0 for .hint files generation o debuginfo package included multitail NEWS: === o No NEWS available

Re: ITP xtail 2.2 -- Extended tail -f utility

2012-02-10 Thread Jari Aalto
2012-02-06 19:46 Corinna Vinschen: | On Feb 2 17:01, Jari Aalto wrote: wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/xtail/setup.hint \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/xtail/xtail-2.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \

Re: ITP xtail 2.2 -- Extended tail -f utility

2012-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 10 13:53, Jari Aalto wrote: 2012-02-06 19:46 Corinna Vinschen: | On Feb 2 17:01, Jari Aalto wrote: wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/xtail/setup.hint \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/xtail/xtail-2.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: xtail 2.1-1 -- Extended tail that works on directories

2012-02-10 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xtail License : BSD Watch the growth of files. It's like running a tail -f on a bunch of files at once. It notices if a file is truncated and starts from the beginning. You can specify both filenames and directories

New package: xtail 2.1-1 -- Extended tail that works on directories

2012-02-10 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xtail License : BSD Watch the growth of files. It's like running a tail -f on a bunch of files at once. It notices if a file is truncated and starts from the beginning. You can specify both filenames and directories

Re: ITP xtail 2.2 -- Extended tail -f utility

2012-02-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 17:01, Jari Aalto wrote: wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/xtail/setup.hint \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/xtail/xtail-2.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/xtail/xtail-2.1-1.tar.bz2

ITP xtail 2.2 -- Extended tail -f utility

2012-02-02 Thread Jari Aalto
://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xtail To check build: tar -xf *src*2 ./*.sh --color --verbose all Jari [ stup.hint ] sdesc: Extended tail that also works on truncated files and directories ldesc: Watch the growth of files. It's like running a tail -f on a bunch of files at once. It notices

tail/head not working with a pseudoterminal

2011-11-25 Thread Costin Caraivan
Hello, I'm trying to tail a file through SSH. I'm launching ssh through Python, like this: ssh -t u...@vm-admin.corp.com tail /cygdrive/c/ctier/ctl/var/logs/ctlcenter/STAGING/Administration/\[Staging\]\ Sleep/7.txt And I get this: Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin

Re: tail/head not working with a pseudoterminal

2011-11-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 16:03, Costin Caraivan wrote: Hello, I'm trying to tail a file through SSH. I'm launching ssh through Python, like this: ssh -t u...@vm-admin.corp.com tail /cygdrive/c/ctier/ctl/var/logs/ctlcenter/STAGING/Administration/\[Staging\]\ Sleep/7.txt And I get this: Pseudo-terminal

Re: tail/head not working with a pseudoterminal

2011-11-25 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 25 16:03, Costin Caraivan wrote: ... Also head fails with: Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal. bash: /cygdrive/c/apps/activeperl/bin/head: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied

Re: tail/head not working with a pseudoterminal

2011-11-25 Thread Costin Caraivan
It's HEAD from lwp-request: http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-6.03/bin/lwp-request Found unfortunately due to case-insensitive NTFS. Costin, try /usr/bin/head explicitly. Csaba Thanks, that should do it. I see one path when connecting manually with SSH, and another one when

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: multitail-5.2.8-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2011-11-17 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Updated to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.9 with gcc-4.5.3 multitail NEWS: === o No NEWS available CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: multitail-5.2.8-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2011-11-17 Thread J Boyd
' Please Unsubsribe My Name ' John Boyd On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dr. Volker Zell dr.volker.z...@oracle.com wrote: Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you.  o Updated to latest upstream release  o Build for cygwin 1.7.9 with gcc-4.5.3 multitail

Updated: multitail-5.2.8-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2011-11-17 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Updated to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.9 with gcc-4.5.3 multitail NEWS: === o No NEWS available CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to

Re: mintty problem with tail -f on Windows XP with virtual desktops

2011-04-01 Thread Andy Koppe
version are we talking about? I frequently remote into servers and run tail -f to monitor various log files. I have noticed when I switched to another virtual desktop, the mintty sessions in the hidden virtual desktops do not get updated.  When I switch back to the desktop and hit the enter key

mintty problem with tail -f on Windows XP with virtual desktops

2011-03-31 Thread Larry Breyer
frequently remote into servers and run tail -f to monitor various log files. I have noticed when I switched to another virtual desktop, the mintty sessions in the hidden virtual desktops do not get updated. When I switch back to the desktop and hit the enter key within the mintty window it seems to catch

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: since 1.1-1 -- tail(1) work-alike that saves and uses state information

2011-02-17 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/since License : GPL-3+ Program remembers how much of a file you have viewed and displays only what's new when you next view that file. Ideal for viewing log files (it'll only show what's new in the file since the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: since 1.1-1 -- tail(1) work-alike that saves and uses state information

2011-02-17 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 17.02.2011 23:50, schrieb Jari Aalto: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/since That would be http://welz.org.za/projects/since -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Updated: since 1.1-1 -- tail(1) work-alike that saves and uses state information

2011-02-17 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/since License : GPL-3+ Program remembers how much of a file you have viewed and displays only what's new when you next view that file. Ideal for viewing log files (it'll only show what's new in the file since the

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-16 Thread Peter Brown
Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com writes: And can this possibly be related to the previously reported issue where bash's choice of terminal control functions would cause execution of gitk as a background process to exit bash? If I start mintty with vt100 as the termtype, then the problem

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-08 Thread TJ Anthony
Andy Koppe andy.koppe at gmail.com writes: On 2 December 2010 20:28, Heath Kehoe wrote: FWIW, I can't reproduce this, even if I kill the tail or less with SIGKILL, thus giving them no chance to do any cleanup. (I assume you use 'less -K' to allow it to be ctrl-c'ed?) Which shell do

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:06:35PM +, TJ Anthony wrote: Andy Koppe andy.koppe at gmail.com writes: On 2 December 2010 20:28, Heath Kehoe wrote: FWIW, I can't reproduce this, even if I kill the tail or less with SIGKILL, thus giving them no chance to do any cleanup. (I assume you use

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/08/2010 10:28 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: After ctrl+C during a grep which is redirecting output to a file: $ speed 38400 baud; line = 0; start = undef; stop = undef; lnext = undef; min = 1; time = 0; -icrnl -imaxbel -icanon -echo -echoe -echok -echoctl -echoke Can anyone

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 2 December 2010 20:28, Heath Kehoe wrote: FWIW, I can't reproduce this, even if I kill the tail or less with SIGKILL, thus giving them no chance to do any cleanup. (I assume you use 'less -K' to allow it to be ctrl-c'ed?) Which shell do people who've seen the problem use

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 2 December 2010 20:49, Illia Bobyr wrote: On 12/2/2010 2:28 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote: [...] Also, the OP said the problem was happening on pipelines like 'tail | grep'. Neither tail nor grep muck with tty settings (that I know of), so if the tty is ending up with echo disabled, it's got

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Illia Bobyr
On 12/1/2010 8:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: orbita wrote: hi, I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a tail (eg. tail -f abc.txt | grep abc), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore. All I could do

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Illia Bobyr
On 12/1/2010 8:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: orbita wrote: hi, I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a tail (eg. tail -f abc.txt | grep abc), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore. All I could do

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread David Rothenberger
Illia Bobyr wrote: On 12/1/2010 8:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: orbita wrote: hi, I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a tail (eg. tail -f abc.txt | grep abc), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
on this a little bit? Maybe a link or a reference that explains why this is happening? I'm sorry, I can't. I don't know why it is happening. I just know how to recover from it as a user. I've noticed that this misbehavior occurs more frequently these days: ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe

RE: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Thrall, Bryan
: ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe a few others) ends up with the terminal settings all scrogged up, and requires you to blindly type in 'reset' (or stty sane) to fix it. It's really rather annoying, but I don't know what exactly caused this to start happening. It's possible

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
it as a user. I've noticed that this misbehavior occurs more frequently these days: ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe a few others) ends up with the I can totally second that behaviour. I've seen it ctrl-c'ing to get out of a tail in an xterm, so it isn't specific to mintty. I do

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Andy Koppe
that this misbehavior occurs more frequently these days: ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe a few others) ends up with the terminal settings all scrogged up, and requires you to blindly type in 'reset' (or stty sane) to fix it. It's really rather annoying, but I don't know what exactly caused

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Andy Koppe
these days: ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe a few others) ends up with the terminal settings all scrogged up FWIW, I can't reproduce this, even if I kill the tail or less with SIGKILL, thus giving them no chance to do any cleanup. (I assume you use 'less -K' to allow it to be ctrl-c'ed

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Heath Kehoe
noticed that this misbehavior occurs more frequently these days: ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe a few others) ends up with the terminal settings all scrogged up FWIW, I can't reproduce this, even if I kill the tail or less with SIGKILL, thus giving them no chance to do any cleanup. (I

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Illia Bobyr
On 12/2/2010 2:28 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote: [...] Also, the OP said the problem was happening on pipelines like 'tail | grep'. Neither tail nor grep muck with tty settings (that I know of), so if the tty is ending up with echo disabled, it's got to be the shell leaving it that way. Perhaps

RE: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Thrall, Bryan
to recover from it as a user. I've noticed that this misbehavior occurs more frequently these days: ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe a few others) ends up with the terminal settings all scrogged up FWIW, I can't reproduce this, even if I kill the tail or less with SIGKILL, thus giving them

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread orbita
. I just know how to recover from it as a user. I've noticed that this misbehavior occurs more frequently these days: ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe a few others) ends up with the I can totally second that behaviour. I've seen it ctrl-c'ing to get out of a tail in an xterm, so

unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-01 Thread orbita
hi, I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a tail (eg. tail -f abc.txt | grep abc), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore. All I could do is close that window and open another cygwin session. Can anybody

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-01 Thread David Rothenberger
orbita wrote: hi, I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a tail (eg. tail -f abc.txt | grep abc), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore. All I could do is close that window and open another cygwin

Re: bash-completion 1.2-1 breaks bash with tail -f

2010-11-16 Thread Rob
Alpha Fighter alphafighter1 at yahoo.com writes: I've run into an issue with bash-completion v1.2-1.  After I tail -f a file and then press ctrl-c to stop tailing I can no longer see any text I type.  My text is being entered, just not being ... echoed back. This does not happen after

Re: bash-completion 1.2-1 breaks bash with tail -f

2010-11-16 Thread Rob
Alpha Fighter alphafighter1 at yahoo.com writes: I've run into an issue with bash-completion v1.2-1.  After I tail -f a file and then press ctrl-c to stop tailing I can no longer see any text I type.  My text is being entered, just not being ... echoed back. This does not happen after

bash-completion 1.2-1 breaks bash with tail -f

2010-11-11 Thread Alpha Fighter
I've run into an issue with bash-completion v1.2-1. After I tail -f a file and then press ctrl-c to stop tailing I can no longer see any text I type. My text is being entered, just not being ... echoed back. This does not happen after uninstalling 1.2-1. It also does not happen if I

bash-completion 1.2-1 breaks bash with tail -f

2010-11-11 Thread Alpha Fighter
I've run into an issue with bash-completion v1.2-1.  After I tail -f a file and then press ctrl-c to stop tailing I can no longer see any text I type.  My text is being entered, just not being ... echoed back. This does not happen after uninstalling 1.2-1.  It also does not happen if I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: multitail-5.2.6-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2010-05-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
' (which works at character level) - --retry added to tail when --retry is requested - suppress_empty_lines did not work CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http

Updated: multitail-5.2.6-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2010-05-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
' (which works at character level) - --retry added to tail when --retry is requested - suppress_empty_lines did not work CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http

Re: tail command does not work as advertised

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Note that the +N notation is specific to --lines=, not the '-n' shorthand. Wrong - the +N notation also works with -n: ps -a | tail -n +5 Ah, I was confused since 'tail -5' still works, but: This is a side affect of the change to the newer POSIX standard. http://www.gnu.org/software

tail command does not work as advertised

2010-03-02 Thread Paul McFerrin
The tail +4 commands does not work as advertised. When given such command (advertised in man command), it complains it can't open the file. With the command tail +5 -, it produces the desired output with some junk on standard output. See examples: $ ps -a | tail +5 - tail: cannot open `+5

Re: tail command does not work as advertised

2010-03-02 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
The tail +4 commands does not work as advertised. When given such command (advertised in man command), it complains it can't open the file. With the command tail +5 -, it produces the desired output with some junk on standard output. As per the tail manpage: -n, --lines=N

Re: tail command does not work as advertised

2010-03-02 Thread Eric Blake
According to Chris Sutcliffe on 3/2/2010 8:01 PM: The tail +4 commands does not work as advertised. When given such command (advertised in man command), it complains it can't open the file. With the command tail +5 -, it produces the desired output with some junk on standard output

Re: tail command does not work as advertised

2010-03-02 Thread Todd Stansell
This is a side affect of the change to the newer POSIX standard. For instance, to use the old standard: 503:$ _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 504:$ export _POSIX2_VERSION 505:$ ps -a | tail +5 2864 12864 2864 con 718399 19:26:01 /usr/bin/rxvt 76122864

Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail

2009-10-28 Thread Roland Schwingel
Hi... At present I am using cygwin 1.5 mainly, but I have also started to migrate over to 1.7. Everything works quite well, but I encountered a problem with the tail command. Obviously the + syntax does no longer work in 1.7 In 1.5 when I call eg. tail +3 /path/to/some/file I get the whole

R: Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail

2009-10-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mer 28/10/09, Roland Schwingel ha scritto: Hi... At present I am using cygwin 1.5 mainly, but I have also started to migrate over to 1.7. Everything works quite well, but I encountered a problem with the tail command. Obviously the + syntax does no longer work in 1.7 In 1.5 when I

Re: R: Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail

2009-10-28 Thread Roland Schwingel
encountered a problem with the tail command. Obviously the + syntax does no longer work in 1.7 In 1.5 when I call eg. tail +3 /path/to/some/file I get the whole file printed starting with line 3 (the first 2 lines are omitted). With cygwin 1.7 this does no longer work. I get an error

Re: R: Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail

2009-10-28 Thread Julio Costa
Hi Roland, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:15, Roland Schwingel wrote: Hi Marco, Thanks for your reply. Quoted e-mail edited; please see http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Marco Atzeri wrote on 28.10.2009 12:05:09: --- Mer 28/10/09, Roland Schwingel  ha scritto: the manual says tail

Re: R: Cygwin 1.5 vs. 1.7: tail

2009-10-28 Thread Dave Korn
Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Mer 28/10/09, Roland Schwingel ha scritto: I get an error: tail: cannot open '+3' for reading: No such file or directory. Is this on purpose or an accident? probably, the last $ tail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 7.0 don't accept any more the previous

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: multitail-5.2.2-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2009-02-22 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards

Updated: multitail-5.2.2-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2009-02-22 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards

Problems with 'tail -n *'

2008-10-29 Thread Gustavo Seabra
Hi All, I just noticed this one thing when using 'tail' in cygwin. For some reason, when using a '*' so as to 'tail' multiple files at once, the '-n' option to tail doesn't work anymore. Note that I tried without the '-n', and it works just as it should, i.e., 'tail *.dat' actually gives teh last

RE: Problems with 'tail -n *'

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Korn
Gustavo Seabra wrote on 29 October 2008 14:33: I just noticed this one thing when using 'tail' in cygwin. For some reason, when using a '*' so as to 'tail' multiple files at once, the '-n' option to tail doesn't work anymore. $ tail -2 *.dat tail: option used in invalid context -- 2

Re: Problems with 'tail -n *'

2008-10-29 Thread Gustavo Seabra
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gustavo Seabra wrote on 29 October 2008 14:33: I just noticed this one thing when using 'tail' in cygwin. For some reason, when using a '*' so as to 'tail' multiple files at once, the '-n' option to tail doesn't work anymore

Re: Problems with 'tail -n *'

2008-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
Gustavo Seabra gustavo.seabra at gmail.com writes: $ tail -2 *.dat OK, I see that now. Thanks. But is there a reason why the abbreviation is not working in cygwin? It works just fine in a different system... It may be due to how many files that glob expands to, as the obsolete syntax

RE: Problems with 'tail -n *'

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Korn
Gustavo Seabra wrote on 29 October 2008 17:39: The -NNN form is an abbreviation for -n NNN. If you write it out in full, it works: $ tail -n 2 *.dat OK, I see that now. Thanks. But is there a reason why the abbreviation is not working in cygwin? It works just fine in a different

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to smr on 4/14/2008 11:56 AM: | Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the | latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know | whether this is a known issue before digging deeper. Not known

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 06:23, Eric Blake wrote: According to smr on 4/14/2008 11:56 AM: | Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the | latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know | whether this is a known issue before digging deeper. Not known to me

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 14:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 16 06:23, Eric Blake wrote: According to smr on 4/14/2008 11:56 AM: | Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the | latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know | whether this is a known

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread smr xxxx
, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the | latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know | whether this is a known issue before digging deeper. Not known to me, but I (thankfully) don't use Vista. I can reproduce this problem on Windows

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:04:12PM -0700, smr wrote: Thanks very much Eric and Corinna for the responses -- glad to hear it's already fixed. FYI, this will even be fixed in the 1.5.25 series eventually. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread smr xxxx
Hi Christopher, is there currently an ETA for a release that would include this fix (whether that's 1.5.25-xx, or 1.6/1.7)? I've been out of the loop for a long time, so apologies if this is a question you've been badgered with recently. Thanks, Steven On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:44 PM,

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to smr on 4/16/2008 6:29 PM: Please don't top-post: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU | Hi Christopher, is there currently an ETA for a release that would | include this fix (whether that's 1.5.25-xx, or 1.6/1.7)? In the classic open

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-15 Thread smr xxxx
(...); } On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:56 AM, smr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know whether this is a known issue before digging deeper. For other reasons

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-15 Thread smr xxxx
14, 2008 at 10:56 AM, smr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know whether this is a known issue before digging deeper. For other reasons, I've rebuilt my machine

Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-14 Thread smr xxxx
Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know whether this is a known issue before digging deeper. For other reasons, I've rebuilt my machine clean twice this weekend and have had this problem both times

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: multitail-5.2.1-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2008-04-07 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards

Updated: multitail-5.2.1-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2008-04-07 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards

Re: [ITP] since 0.5 -- Tail work-alike that saves and uses state information

2008-03-03 Thread Jari Aalto
http://packages.debian.org/since When I build from source I get an additional README file in /usr/share/doc/since-0.5 Now it's missing from your and my build. The original package contains: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root None 6 Feb 29 13:24 INSTALL - README

[GTG] Re: [ITP] since 0.5 -- Tail work-alike that saves and uses state information

2008-03-03 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jari Aalto writes: http://packages.debian.org/since When I build from source I get an additional README file in /usr/share/doc/since-0.5 Now it's missing from your and my build. The original package contains: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root None 6

Re: [ITP] since 0.5 -- Tail work-alike that saves and uses state information

2008-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 2 21:43, Jari Aalto wrote: http://cygwin.cante.net/since/since-0.5-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://cygwin.cante.net/since/since-0.5-1.tar.bz2 \ http://cygwin.cante.net/since/setup.hint Uploaded. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: since 0.5-1 -- tail(1) work-alike that saves and uses state information

2008-03-03 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://welz.org.za/projects/since License : GPL Program remembers how much of a file you have viewed and displays only what's new when you next view that file. Ideal for viewing log files (it'll only show what's new in the file since the last

New package: since 0.5-1 -- tail(1) work-alike that saves and uses state information

2008-03-03 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://welz.org.za/projects/since License : GPL Program remembers how much of a file you have viewed and displays only what's new when you next view that file. Ideal for viewing log files (it'll only show what's new in the file since the last

Re: [ITP] since 0.5 -- Tail work-alike that saves and uses state information

2008-03-02 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jari Aalto writes: Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/since When I build from source I get an additional README file in /usr/share/doc/since-0.5 Ciao Volker

Re: [ITP] since 0.5 -- Tail work-alike that saves and uses state information

2008-03-02 Thread Jari Aalto
* Sun 2008-03-02 Dr Dr [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jari Aalto writes: Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/since When I build from source I get an additional README file in /usr/share/doc/since-0.5 Fixed. wget\

Re: [ITP] since 0.5 -- Tail work-alike that saves and uses state information

2008-03-02 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jari Aalto writes: * Sun 2008-03-02 Dr Dr [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jari Aalto writes: Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/since When I build from source I get an additional README file in

[ITP] since 0.5 -- Tail work-alike that saves and uses state information

2008-02-29 Thread Cygwin-bug#20080229T1159
Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/since Jari sdesc: Tail work-alike that saves and uses state information ldesc: Program remembers how much of a file you have viewed and displays only what's new when you next view that file. Ideal for viewing log files. It'll only show

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: multitail-5.2.0-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2007-07-11 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor

Updated: multitail-5.2.0-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.

2007-07-11 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor

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