[SOLVED] monitor continous moving file in unix

vaibhavs17 · 06-28-2012, 11:27 AM

Hi Team,

I would like to know, one process (shell script) is running and it is keep on writing the logs into the log file. How can we get the current updated logs?

other than tail -linecount filename

Thanks,
Vaibhav

273 · 06-28-2012, 11:43 AM

Would watch be the kind of things you are after:

Code:

watch tail <filename>

will show you the last lines of the file and update when more line are written.

montel · 06-28-2012, 11:48 AM

Alternatively, you can use:

Code:

tail -f <filename>

This will "follow" the log, outputting the latest logs onto the screen as they get written to the file.