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9 Commits (981b7af185b74e31bcac0ab7bb7b3116b0fb412a)

Author SHA1 Message Date
shyneko 94cb11e58d
tail: add example using -s parameter. (#4180) 2020-07-16 21:49:40 +01:00
Agniva De Sarker 29612adca2
add a comma 2017-11-24 11:41:53 +05:30
Steve Stodola 5174bb40f6
Update tail.md 2017-11-23 22:53:55 -07:00
Steve Stodola 2c789950db
update tail to indicate -F
If I open the file with tail like this:

$ tail -f /var/log/messages
... and if the log rotation facility on my machine decides to rotate that log file while I'm watching messages being written to it ("rotate" means delete or move to another location etc.), the output that I see will just stop.

If I open the file with tail like this:

$ tail -F /var/log/messages
... and again, the file is rotated, the output would continue to flow in my console because tail would reopen the file as soon as it became available again, i.e. when the program(s) writing to the log started writing to the new /var/log/messages.
2017-11-23 17:16:08 -07:00
Waldir Pimenta 433370e2ad change all keyboard shortcuts to have spaces around the + sign (#1356) 2017-04-28 23:34:51 +01:00
Waldir Pimenta 7e1f06ade4 standardize format of keyboard shortcuts (#1354)
* fix capitalization of keyboard shortcuts (elinks, tmux, screen)
* adjust formatting of keyboard shortcuts (tail, xsel)
2017-04-28 08:44:50 +01:00
Ruben Vereecken 066582e8ea Formatted all pages according to guidelines. 2016-01-08 09:38:59 +01:00
Bruno Durán 57d42257d3 Improved tail.md 2014-03-19 12:49:24 +01:00
rprieto f00bf64426 Move pages back into a "pages" folder 2014-03-04 23:28:29 +11:00