Use “tail -f” to monitor and report, but the top line should be always fixed on the screen.
Title: Use “tail -f” to monitor and report, but the top line should be always fixed on the screen.
Hi, dear Unix experts,
I am trying to find a Unix command (or scripting) on how to continuously display a text file of its last several lines of contents. But during this displaying, I want some of the top lines are always displayed on the screen top when the scrolling contents reach the screen top.
To make a simple, a text file “test001.log” is in its running process with the ending lines adding.
Say, I want to use some commands like “tail –f”, but it will show a total number of 10 lines. The top line (possibly several lines in the middle) always shows “tab1 tab2 tab3 tab4 tab5”. The rest 9 lines show the last latest updated 9 lines. Such scrolling should not exceed outside my Unix screen shell.
I’ve tried to search such function in many websites, but haven’t found useful information. I would think this function is very useful. But can I do it?
Thanks in advance.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
tail
tail(1)tail(1)NAME
tail - deliver the last part of a file
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/tail [ +-s number [lbcr]] [file]
/usr/bin/tail [-lbcr] [file]
/usr/bin/tail [ +- number [lbcf]] [file]
/usr/bin/tail [-lbcf] [file]
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail [-f | -r] [-c number | -n number] [file]
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail [ +- number [l | b | c] [f]] [file]
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail [ +- number [l] [f | r] ] [file]
The tail utility copies the named file to the standard output beginning at a designated place. If no file is named, the standard input is
used.
Copying begins at a point in the file indicated by the -cnumber, -nnumber, or +-number options (if +number is specified, begins at distance
number from the beginning; if -number is specified, from the end of the input; if number is NULL, the value 10 is assumed). number is
counted in units of lines or byte according to the -c or -n options, or lines, blocks, or bytes, according to the appended option l, b,
or c. When no units are specified, counting is by lines.
The following options are supported for both /usr/bin/tail and /usr/xpg4/bin/tail. The -r and -f options are mutually exclusive. If both
are specified on the command line, the -f option is ignored.
-b Units of blocks.
-c Units of bytes.
-f Follow. If the input-file is not a pipe, the program does not terminate after the line of the input-file has been copied, but
enters an endless loop, wherein it sleeps for a second and then attempts to read and copy further records from the input-file.
Thus it can be used to monitor the growth of a file that is being written by some other process.
-l Units of lines.
-r Reverse. Copies lines from the specified starting point in the file in reverse order. The default for r is to print the entire
file in reverse order.
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail
The following options are supported for /usr/xpg4/bin/tail only:
-c number The number option-argument must be a decimal integer whose sign affects the location in the file, measured in bytes, to
begin the copying:
+ Copying starts relative to the beginning of the file.
- Copying starts relative to the end of the file.
none Copying starts relative to the end of the file.
The origin for counting is 1; that is, -c+1 represents the first byte of the file, -c-1 the last.
-n number Equivalent to -cnumber, except the starting location in the file is measured in lines instead of bytes. The origin for
counting is 1. That is, -n+1 represents the first line of the file, -n-1 the last.
The following operand is supported:
file A path name of an input file. If no file operands are specified, the standard input is used.
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of tail when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
Example 1: Using the tail Command
The following command prints the last ten lines of the file fred, followed by any lines that are appended to fred between the time tail is
initiated and killed.
example% tail -f fred
The next command prints the last 15 bytes of the file fred, followed by any lines that are appended to fred between the time tail is initi-
ated and killed:
example% tail -15cf fred
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of tail: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
/usr/bin/tail
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWxcu4 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
cat(1), head(1), more(1), pg(1), dd(1M), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)
Piped tails relative to the end of the file are stored in a buffer, and thus are limited in length. Various kinds of anomalous behavior can
happen with character special files.
13 Jul 2005 tail(1)