Re: 'watching' a file
Paul Miller wrote:
>
> How can you 'watch' a file as it is being written to? For example, I want
> to have a script watch a log files for certain information and do
> something when it sees the information.
tail -f file_name
>
> Thanks
> -Paul
>
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