On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:20:00PM -0700, Daniel Crookston wrote: > That's what the -f is for. You can also tail -f directories, but I don't > think the results are very meaningful. > > > Will "tail -f /dev/random" actually work? My understanding is that since > > it tries to go to the last N lines of the file, which don't really > > exist, it won't ever show anything.
Tail -f /dev/random doesn't work, at least on my box. Even if you're doing -f, it still goes all the way to the last 10 lines of the file before continuously giving you the rest of it. However, cat works great, and it continues to follow because the stream never ends. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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