Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:17:02 -0500 From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: monitor the growth of a file. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020409121640.0491f418@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0204091307360.2802-100000@onyx>
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At 01:09 PM 4/9/2002 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: >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? tail -f >Thanks, > >-Zhihui -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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