On Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:25 PM, jtr@uni-bonn.de wrote > Mike Egglestone <megglestone@heritage.sd57.bc.ca> writes: > > I would like to write a script that would > > output to the screen the latest contents of a log, > > and continue to do so until I abort the script. > No need to write it yourself -- > $ apt-cache show console-log Will 'tail -f' do the job? -=greg