Questions tagged [tail]
Tail is a command-line program that by default outputs the last ten lines to standard output; with other command switches, particular numbers of lines can be specified and files can be monitored in real time.
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GUI for watching logs (tail and grep)
Could you recommend a GUI application with powerful log watching capabilities?
Generally it would work as tail -f in GUI, but on top of that following features would be very useful:
filtering out ...
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Move only the last 8 files in a directory to another directory
I'm trying to move the last 8 files from the Documents directory to another directory, but I don't want to move them one-by-one to that specific directory. Is it possible to move them with a ...
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tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files
When I try to tail -f catalina.out, I get the error:
tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files
I tried the answer in this post:
Too many open files - how to find the ...
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Why won't `tail -f` follow my syslog when running live?
I want to monitor /var/log/syslog for any changes in realtime (or within-a-few-seconds-of-time), but tail -f won't update with any new changes.
I'm running Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 17 XFCE live now, ...
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What package is tail included with? [duplicate]
What package is tail (the command-line tool to see the end lines of a file) included with in the latest stable version of Ubuntu, if I want to install or uninstall it (and does it come installed by ...
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monitor syslog and print line without `pattern`
I would like to monitor my /var/log/syslog continuously. However while monitoring, I would like to avoid certain pattern(s) while monitoring. I am interested only in the last 15 (for example) lines.
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Running tasks in remote server via SSH - life cycle?
Two related questions:
If I ssh into a remote server and start a long running task in the foreground (:~$ ./my-task > out.log), will the process continue to run when my connection to the server ...
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