77 From the tail(1) man page: With --follow (-f), tail defaults to following the file descriptor, which means that even if a tail’ed file is renamed, tail will continue to track its end. This default …

I don't understand the function of the option -f added to the tail command. I know that tail views the "last" part of a file. The manual says that -f outputs appended data as the file grows But ...

Tail will then listen for changes to that file. If you remove the file, and create a new one with the same name the filename will be the same but it's a different inode (and probably stored on a …

Also, I would at least consider using tail -f instead of cat so that the output can be followed in near-realtime. You may want to look at the OPs comment to this answer which is basically the …

A simple pipe to tail -n 200 should suffice. Example Sample data. $ touch $(seq 300) Now the last 200: $ ls -l | tail -n 200 You might not like the way the results are presented in that list of 200. …

Say I have a huge text file (>2GB) and I just want to cat the lines X to Y (e.g. 57890000 to 57890010). From what I understand I can do this by piping head into tail or viceversa, i.e. head …

Jan 30, 2014 · I'd like to be able to tail the output of a server log file that has messages like: INFO SEVERE etc, and if it's SEVERE, show the line in red; if it's INFO, in green. What kind of alias …

Aug 22, 2017 · When I do tail -f filename, how to quit the mode without use Ctrl+c to kill the process? What I want is a normal way to quit, like q in top. I am just curious about the …

tail -f | nl works for me and is the first what I thought of - that is if you really want the lines numbered from 1 and not with the real line number from the file watched. Optionally add grep …

Here is what I know I can do: tail -n 15 -F mylogfile.txt As the log file is filled, tail appends the last lines to the display. I am looking for a solution that only displays the last 15 lines and get rid of …