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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Use “tail -f” to monitor and report, but the top line should be always fixed on the screen. Post 302763811 by gary_w on Wednesday 30th of January 2013 01:11:15 PM
Old 01-30-2013
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

while :
do
  clear
  printf "tab1\ttab2\ttab3\ttab4"
  tail -9 test001.log
  sleep 5
done

 

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gvfs-monitor-dir(1)						   User Commands					       gvfs-monitor-dir(1)

NAME
gvfs-monitor-dir - monitor the change of a directory content using the VFS system SYNOPSIS
gvfs-monitor-dir URI DESCRIPTION
gvfs-monitor-dir monitors the change content of a directory using the VFS system. If anything changes inside the directory, gvfs-monitor- dir will print a message informing of the event. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: URI Specifies the directory location in standard URI format. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Monitor a local directory example% gvfs-monitor-dir file:///tmp/example ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gvfs-monitor-dir Executable to monitor the change content of a directory using the VFS system. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-gvfs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1) gvfs-cat(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1), gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-move(1), gvfs- rename(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5) NOTES
Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008. SunOS 5.11 25 Mar 2008 gvfs-monitor-dir(1)
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