[Discuss] Bash question

[George Farris]

Did you know you can use tailf  instead of tail - f!
 On Aug 16, 2014 11:36 PM, "Noel Burton-Krahn" <noel at burton-krahn.com>
wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I use 'tail -f' to save the output of a program and watch it at the same
> time:
>
> make >make.out 2>&1 & tail -F make.log
>
>
> Note, Ctrl-C will kill tail, not the make session above.  You have to kill
> make explicitly if you want to stop it:
>
> kill %-
>
>
>
> Sometimes you make want to start a long running program and be able to log
> in from time to time to see how it's doing.  I start it in a screen session:
>
> screen -d -m -S myscreen tcpdump  -veplni host
>
>
> Then later while it's running I can log in from a different session and
> check up on it
>
> screen -dr myscreen
>
> Or kill it:
>
> screen -X -S myscreen quit
>
>
> HTH
> --
> Noel
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:24 PM, John Blomfield <jabfield at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> Here is a snippet from a bash script cron job I run:
>>
>> .............
>> if rsync -avz --delete --exclude=lost+found $SOURCEDIR $DESTDIR 1>
>> $DEBUGLOG 2> $ERRORLOG; then \
>> ..........
>>
>> Occasionally, I need to run this script manually in a terminal and would
>> like to see the output in the terminal as well as saving it to the debug
>> and error log files. Any suggestions?
>>
>> --
>> John Blomfield
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