Re: 'watching' a file

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@metrolink.net>]

Paul Miller <paul@3dillusion.com> asks:
> 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

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