less +F filename does the same thing, but loses the following when the logfile gets rotated. Does the same thing happen to tail -f? (edit: alexfoo answered that tail -F tracks the file properly)
one benefit to less +F is that you can cancel the following and read normally in less.
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tail -f filename should definitely make the list, essential for watching what's appended to log files in real time.
I prefer:-
tail -F filename
as most of the logfiles I need to watch tend to wrap at some point and 'tail -f' doesn't check for inode changes.
(-F is a non-standard option, it's there on GNU's [EDIT] tail binary and OS-X but not Solaris for example).
Thanks, very useful - didn't know that!
less +F filename does the same thing, but loses the following when the logfile gets rotated. Does the same thing happen to tail -f? (edit: alexfoo answered that tail -F tracks the file properly)
one benefit to less +F is that you can cancel the following and read normally in less.
> one benefit to less +F is that you can cancel the following and read normally in less.
Yeah, including doing backwards and forward searches, that is very handy