[PLUG] Using less on a growing file

Ronald Bynoe ronald at bynoe.us
Thu Sep 25 21:18:31 UTC 2014


Why not just tail -f myfile.txt?
On Sep 25, 2014 2:17 PM, "Tim Wescott" <tim at wescottdesign.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to use less, or a less-like viewer, to view a growing
> file such that as the file grows, paging down will get me more and more
> content?
>
> As far as I can tell, just running 'less myfile.txt', when myfile.txt is
> being written to by another app, seems to just take a snapshot of
> myfile.txt -- I want to be able to look at the full extent of the file
> AS IT GROWS, to monitor ongoing long computations to see how they're
> doing.
>
> If you're tempted to just answer with "you don't want to do that" -- no,
> I do indeed want to do that, and I have good reason.
>
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