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How to do a continous 'wc -l' with gnu texttools?

I know of course that cat logfile.txt | wc -l 120 will tell me the number of lines in a file. Whereas tail -f logfile.txt will show me the new lines that another program writes to logfile.txt. ...
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Observe multiple log files in one output

Is there an easy way to do something like tail -f mylogfile but to have the changes of more than one file displayed (maybe with the file name added as prefix to each line)? Or maybe a GUI tool? I am ...
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How do I tail a log file and keep tailing it when the latest one changes date?

I'm using RHEL 4. The normal tail -F file_name*.log doesn't update when the time flips over to 0000. Here's what I've tried so far from searching the web, both of which try to use nested tail: ...
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Graphical logviewer that auto reload when file changes?

I'm wondering if there's a graphical viewer, also it needs to support auto-reloading when log file has changed. ksystemlog doesn't reload automatically.
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Command to display first few and last few lines of a file

I have a file with many rows, and each row has a timestamp at the starting, like [Thread-3] (21/09/12 06:17:38:672) logged message from code..... So, I frequently check 2 things from this log file. ...
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`tail -f` until text is seen

I've got a CI server with a command-line interface that allows me to remotely kick-off a job (jenkins CI server and the jenkins-cli.jar tool). After I kick the job off I tail -f the log (sorry for ...
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monitor files (ala tail -f) in an entire directory (even new ones)

I normally watch many logs in a directory doing tail -f directory/*. The problem is that a new log is created after that, it will not show in the screen (because * was expanded already). Is there a ...
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How to monitor only the last n lines of a log file?

I have a growing log file for which I want to display only the last 15 lines. Here is what I know I can do: tail -n 15 -F mylogfile.txt As the log file is filled, tail appends the last lines to the ...
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Moving average on a log file with awk or other unix utilities?

Scenario: I have a log file that has a few number of entry "classes", like this: R0 dx=0.00500 rb=0.00000 sn=1 3145.88 2.59 0.08 se=21315 id=16190 R0 dx=0.00300 rb=-1.00000 sn=1 3150.40 2.38 0.05 ...
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Is there a way to beep when tail -F stops to fetch new results?

A few days ago I asked Is there a way to make tail -F beep? Now I want to know if there is any way to use *nix utilities, to beep when a tail -F stops returning new lines for a while! I know, I ...
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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 do a `tail -f` of log rotated files?

On a long running system I usually have a terminal with $ tail -f /var/log/kern.log or something like this open. But from time to time I have to restart such command because no new messages are ...
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Pretty tail -f for log files [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to have tail -f show colored output Is there a bash/awk script or utility that pretty formats and colors tail -f from log files? At the moment I am specifically ...
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Is it fine to use tail -f on large log files

I would like monitor a large log file (close to 1 GB) for errors. I want this to be close to real time (few seconds delay is fine). My plan is to use tail -f | grep. Is there any performance issues ...
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What's a convenient way of checking what's being added to a log file in realtime?

Right now I'm essentially executing tail /var/log/syslog manually every once in a while. Is there something that lets me see what's being added continuously, or do I need to write something myself?
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Best way to follow a log and execute a command when some text appears in the log

I have a server log that outputs a specific line of text into its log file when the server is up. I want to execute a command once the server is up, and hence do something like the following: tail -f ...
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Reading from a continuously changing logfile

There is /location/of/thefile, which is a continuously changing logfile. The average density of refreshes is 4 per minute, the possible maximal refresh rate could be 30-40 per minute. Every refresh ...
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Is it possible to “roll” a symlink to a new file without affecting any open file handles?

An application I am developing locally logs it's output to files formatted with the current timestamp such as app-%Y%m%d.log. To make it simple to be able to tail the current's day log in a terminal ...