02-15-2012
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Originally Posted by
eurouno
Tail command will not work since I don’t know how many lines are in the file.
You don't have to, because tail -f never quits -- when it hits the end of file, it waits for more data. Whenever the length of the file changes, it will print out what was added. If the file is truncated, it ought to start over from the beginning, too.
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