Aug 22, 2017 · When I do tail -f filename, how to quit the mode without use Ctrl+c to kill the process? What I want is a normal way to quit, like q in top. I am just curious about the …

May 3, 2021 · it might be simple but after looking around I could not find a way to resolve my issue, I am recovering the last line from file1 using tail -1 file1 and want to add it to an existing …

Aug 31, 2020 · With normal syslog I can go to /var/log and run tail -F *log if I am not sure which log something is logged in. Is there an equivalent for systemd? Background I am trying to …

It means tail -f command will wait for new strings in the file and show these strings dynamically. This command useful for observing log files . For example try, tail -f /var/log/messages.

Apr 14, 2015 · The option --line-buffer is required because the output of a command (e.g. tail -f one.log or tail -f two.log) would be printed if that command is finished. Since tail -f will wait for …

Pressing F or G makes less try to reach input EOF. If the input is a pipe, less hangs until the pipe is closed on the other side (and not "does nothing"). This can be worked around by saving the …

If your tail implementation does not have the --retry option, you could probably just cheat and create the file yourself: $ touch file && tail-f file Depending on your requirements with respect …

iptables -A INPUT -j LOG With syslog I could see the iptables logs doing this: tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep kernel With systemd I can't find a way to see what is failing. I've been trying journalctl …

Dec 4, 2012 · Another improvemtn, actually main reason I wrote this, is the ability to have .splexrc.json files in different folders, so instead having to type tail -f f1 f2 f3 in one folder, then …

An alternative very lightweight option is just to 'tail' everything but the first line (this can be an easy way to remove file headers generally): # -n +2 : start at line 2 of the file. tail -n +2 file.txt > …