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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: monitor the growth of a file.
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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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