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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:17:02 -0500
To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>,
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From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
Subject: Re: monitor the growth of a file.
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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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