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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 ...
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How to have tail -f show colored output
I'd like to be able to tail the output of a server log file that has messages like:
INFO
SEVERE
etc, and if it's SEVERE, show the line in red; if it's INFO, in green. What kind of alias can I ...
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How do I make a shell script that sends output to a process
I'm currently running a server console program in a screen because I need to both read it and occasionally send commands.
I'd like to run the app as a deamon in the background (start/stop it with ...
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grep and tail -f?
Is it possible to do a tail -f (or similar) on a file, and grep it at the same time? I wouldn't mind other commands just looking for that kind of behavior.
