On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Tim Wescott <t...@wescottdesign.com> wrote: > Is there a way to use less, or a less-like viewer, to view a growing > file such that as the file grows, paging down will get me more and more > content? > > As far as I can tell, just running 'less myfile.txt', when myfile.txt is > being written to by another app, seems to just take a snapshot of > myfile.txt -- I want to be able to look at the full extent of the file > AS IT GROWS, to monitor ongoing long computations to see how they're > doing.
less itself works that way. shift-g will reveal anything new added to myfile.txt after you opened it with less. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
