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Making less's follow option show line movement
I often find myself using less to display log files that contain hundreds of
contiguous, identical lines that are appended to the files at set intervals.
For example,
something happened
something ...
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How to have tail -f show colored output with vim?
In this question, Gilles answered
Yet another possibility is to run tail -f in an Emacs shell buffer and use Emacs's syntax coloring abilities.
Because I'm a vim user, I'd like to do this with ...
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Follow a pipe using less?
Can less follow (by pressing F) a piped input (similarly to a file)?
For a file that is being written to, the command
less <file>
will follow the file when pressing F.
But if I have a ...
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Is there a way to make tail -F beep?
Is there a way to make tail -F or less beep (ring the bell in a terminal) when new data comes in (a new line is added to the file).
Or is there any other unix utility to do this on a linux or mac.
