Hey,
I've seen other people use this feature before but can anyone tell me how (from ssh terminal) I can open a .txt or .log file and watch it get updated live, for example if another application edits it then i won't have to do anything and it will just update on my terminal window?
Thanks,
Kev
Jump to Post#!/bin/sh while [ 1 ] do cat $1; sleep 1; clear done
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tailhas a flag that keeps the file open and updates stdout whenever the file is changed. Do something like$ tail -f [I]/var/log/my-log[/I]
#!/bin/sh
while [ 1 ]
do
cat $1; sleep 1; clear
donei swear there is a one word command for this...
not snip, not concat but something similar...
tail has a flag that keeps the file open and updates stdout whenever the file is changed. Do something like
$ tail -f [I]/var/log/my-log[/I]Legend!
Cool. I thought tail just displayed the end of a file...
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