From: Tony Williams 

Geo wrote:
> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
> news:o222t19fgcic5bbtj2mn8lh44au91gno72{at}4ax.com...
>
>
>>But you can't filter and highlight with tail, although I think you can
>>redirect tail to grep for filtering.
>
>
> I use tail -f to watch a log file as it's being filled. If I am searching a
> log file I use grep "whatever" > temp.txt and then send
the txt file to
> which ever tech needed it.
>

If you've got a copy of "less" try viewing a log file and hitting
'F' (has to be upper case). It'll make less behave like tail -f until you
hit control-C.

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Tony

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