[PLUG] Using less on a growing file
Tim Wescott
tim at wescottdesign.com
Thu Sep 25 21:37:34 UTC 2014
I need to be able to navigate around the whole file, not just look at
the end. Bill's answer sounds like my solution.
On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 14:18 -0700, Ronald Bynoe wrote:
> 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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>
> Tim Wescott
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> Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.
> Phone: 503.631.7815
> Cell: 503.349.8432
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Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.
Phone: 503.631.7815
Cell: 503.349.8432
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