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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

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