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Tail -f piped through grep not outputing to file, but outputs to console

I'm using the following command tail -f /mydir/myfile | grep "searchterm" >> outfile Without the -f it works fine, but with the -f, which I need, nothing is written to the file. The ...
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limit stdout to terminal output speed [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I limit the output speed of stdout? What's the easiest way to limit the speed at which stdout is output in a terminal, so that, for instance, tail -f outputs ...
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Can I use tail with a file both as input and destination?

I have a log file that gets big fast. I tried using tail with this syntax but it didn't work. tail logfile.log -n 100000 > logfile.log The output file is 0 bytes and blank. What am I doing ...
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How to limit the number of lines a command's output has available in bash?

I started downloading a big file in the background using $ nohup wget http://example.tld/big.iso & which also gives me a nohup.out file that includes the output of wget. Now, if I later want ...