On 08/24/2006 08:50 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi, How do you run tail and not have it fold the output? E.g. I run: tail -s 1 -n 40 -f kern.log But it folds the output so that what is messy is now messier... H
In addition to using 'cut' as Dave Sherohman suggested, you can also use the 'less' program:
less --chop-long-lines +F myfile.log The "+F" allows less to act like "tail."