From: "Geo" 

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> 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.

> Anyway, have one of your techs give Trace32 a look if you get time, I
> think you'll like it.  When I was still doing SMS admin work it wasn't
> unusual for me to be watching three or four interrelated log files in
> a tiled display, with little impact on local resources.

The techs don't have access to the log file and I really don't want to give
them access to it because there are too many issues with that.

Geo.

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