Am 20.05.2012 14:52, schrieb suvayu ali: > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson > <mellertson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> What you are seeing is the last last 10 lines of the file, and >> then new additions as it is added to the file. This is the way >> tail -f works. You may want to read the man or info page on tail. > > Maybe `less +F /path/to/file` would be more appropriate here? "tail -n 1000 -f /var/log/messages" does practically the same and is more suiteable on large files
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