Tail rotor shirt. txt As the log file is filled, tail appends the last lines to the display. 57890000 to 57890010). Jan 30, 2014 ยท I'd like to be able to tail the output of a server log file that has messages like: INFO SEVERE etc, and if it's SEVERE, show the line in red; if it's INFO, in green. log' 1 Is it possible to do a tail -f (or similar) on a file, and grep it at the same time? I wouldn't mind other commands just looking for that kind of behavior. I don't understand the function of the option -f added to the tail command. . tail -f fill not retry and load the new inode, tail -F will detect this. What kind of alias can I set Here is what I know I can do: tail -n 15 -F mylogfile. From what I understand I can do this by piping head into tail or viceversa, i. Also, I would at least consider using tail -f instead of cat so that the output can be followed in near-realtime. For example, the data I've generated is numeric. For that you can control the order of the results that ls outputs through a variety of switches. If you remove the file, and create a new one with the same name the filename will be the same but it's a different inode (and probably stored on a different place on your disk). e. Would you have an idea? Say I have a huge text file (>2GB) and I just want to cat the lines X to Y (e. 77 From the tail(1) man page: With --follow (-f), tail defaults to following the file descriptor, which means that even if a tail’ed file is renamed, tail will continue to track its end. $ touch $(seq 300) Now the last 200: $ ls -l | tail -n 200 You might not like the way the results are presented in that list of 200. To monitor a set of files based on wildcards, you can use multitail. This default behavior is not desirable when you really want to track the actual name of the file, not the file descrip- tor (e. 77 From the tail(1) man page: With --follow (-f), tail defaults to following the file descriptor, which means that even if a tail’ed file is renamed, tail will continue to track its end. , log rotation). I know that tail views the "last" part of a file. head -A / tail monitors a single file, or at most a set of files that is determined when it starts up. multitail -iw 'file_name*. The manual says that -f outputs appended data as the file grows But Tail will then listen for changes to that file. g. log, first the shell expands the wildcard pattern, then tail is called on whatever file (s) exist at the time. A simple pipe to tail -n 200 should suffice. Example Sample data. I am looking for a solution that only displays the last 15 lines and get rid of the lines before the last 15 after it has been updated. In the command tail -F file_name*. You may want to look at the OPs comment to this answer which is basically the same as yours. 55zcr psfwz vmqqdx aj5g 9j drv2a zuz grsvma 5rug5q wde