On 23/11/06, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:23:37AM +1100, Penedo wrote:
> On 23/11/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I want to tail -f the syslog file but I only want to see what I want to
> >see and I don't want to see what I don't what to see. The idea is to
> >tail follow through a filter. Is that possible.
>
> What's wrong with "tail -f syslog | grep ..."?
Buffering
Can you elaborate? It works for me (I mean - I get the output through
grep as soon as tail wakes up and reads the line).
--P
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