03-21-2002
Tail-alike display of new files in directory
The system I work on, produces several kinds of status-files in a single directory. I would like to be able to see the files as they are added to this directory.
I was wondering if it would be possible to get a "tail -f" alike view of the ls-command, in such a way that a newly added file is automagically added at the bottom.
The way we do it now, is with the command below, which we need to execute manually (which imho is not handy):
ls -l -rt|tail -20 (to view 20 last files)
And we do more "in depth" searches inside these files with:
ls -l -rt tail `grep -l searchstring *`
But it would be wonderful to just see the list "grow" since this way, it is much easier to recognize errormessages since these errormessages are fixed size, 645 bytes and easy to spot.
We use SunOS 5.7 with Bash 2.01.
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