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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   monitor the growth of a file.
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0204091307360.2802-100000@onyx>

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I have a text file that grows steadily by an application. Is there a way I
can monitor the growth of it? One way is to write a script with a line
like "cat filename | tail" in a loop.  But is there a better way?

Thanks,

-Zhihui


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