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 …

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 …

tail monitors a single file, or at most a set of files that is determined when it starts up. In the command tail -F file_name*.log, first the shell expands the wildcard pattern, then tail is called …

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 …

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 …

Looks like a very similar question was asked before. monitor files (ala tail -f) in an entire directory (even new ones) Essentially tail -f does not work as you expect because the * wildcard was …

The point is that tail -f file1 file2 doesn't work on AIX where tail accepts only one filename. You can do (tail -f file1 & tail -f file2) | process to redirect the stdout of both tail s to the pipe to …

Is it possible to do a tail -f (or similar) on a file, and grep it at the same time? I wouldn't mind other commands just looking for that kind of behavior.

0 If you want to see the new lines being appended to a file that has more than one page I recommend to use watch -n 1 tail -n 50 log.txt watch -n 1 will show updates at every 1 second …

You could do tail -f /proc/kmsg, but this is only allow to one process, and this is usually your logging daemon. - It's job is to read the messages and write it to real files (usually in /var/log) …