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• 03.02.09
  Adding ‘tail -f’ behavior to ‘less’ cmd | rafacas | (0)

  $ less +F /var/log/messages The +F option turns on less 'follow mode'. It is similar to tail -f but you will have the benefits of less, like scrolling up and down. To stop tailing, use Ctrl-C and to resume it, press Shift-F.

  Tagged: less, tail
  
• 02.20.09
  Displaying last lines of a file in real time cmd | rafacas | (0)

  $ tail -f /var/log/messages Displays continously (in "real time") the last lines of /var/log/messages as it grows.

  Tagged: tail
  
• 11.17.08
  Output last lines of a file cmd | rafacas | (0)

  $ tail -20 test.txt Outputs the last 20 lines of file test.txt

  Tagged: tail, unix
  
• 08.15.08
  Looking at the End shell | n0str0m0 | (0)

  From time to time we want to see only a few lines near the end of a file. We often use cat or more, but this can be tedious when the file is big (like a very long log file). You can use these commands to read from the end of the file: tac. It works exactly as cat but reading from the end of the file tail. It reads from the end of the file. It has more features than tac. The one I found to be more interesting is the -f flag. It makes tail to continue reading from the ...

  Tagged: cat, more, tac, tail, unix