I have a script which produces a file 'Detail.out'. I know that the script is completed whenever the file contains a certain number of lines (roughly 21025). So I find myself sitting at the command prompt running:
[me@somewhere myDir]$ wc -l */Detail.out
21025 A/Detail.out
21025 B/Detail.out
21025 C/Detail.out
12995 D/Detail.out
10652 E/Detail.out
3481 F/Detail.out
21027 G/Detail.out
21025 H/Detail.out
21025 I/Detail.out
... ...
I've used tail -f
to watch a specific file, but I'd like to follow the output of the wc -l */Detail.out
command shown above. Is this possible? I'm currently using tcsh
in Ubuntu 11.04 if that matters.