If you are trying to get information about a file, why not ask about that file explicitly with:
instead of hoping that:
will give you information about the file you want???
We have a third party tool in UNIX to kick off a 'file copy' job based on a file existance. If a specific file exists in an UNIX directory, another process should start copy the file into another system for further processing. The issue is, the copy job is starting as soon as the file exists in... (6 Replies)
my /etc/.osm file is growing rapidly and logging large amounts of activity. Can anyone tell me what this file is for and what types of information is logged in this file.
Thanks in advance for your help!! (1 Reply)
I need to find the file that is growing in the mount. Say yesterday the utilised space was 95% but today that is 96%. How do i find the file that is growing in size. Have checked the same with du/df options but was not able to find much.
Please suggest the best possible option. (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to create a script that checks if a file exists on an offsite server
which only has ftp enabled. I was originally going to use perls Net::FTP
class but the client does not have perl installed nor wants it.
So, I have to use a shell script which logs into the server, then ... (1 Reply)
Hi gurus
Im a newbie in solaris..I need to extend file system space in solaris 10 which is using SVM..I have a file system /pin02 which is 93% full n needs to be extended..only 3.6 gb avail space left..the file system is not mirrored...normal ufs file system only..can u please tel me t... (6 Replies)
How to check log size every 10min. by script (can use crontab)
if log size not change with alert "Log not update"
Base run on SunOS 5.8 Generic_Virtual sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
logFiles="log1.log log2.log"
logLocation="/usr/home/test/log/"
Out put.
Tue Jan 31... (3 Replies)
I have a simple script which copies directory from one place to another and deleting the source .
I am facing a situation when new files gets added when the script has started running. Its resulting in data loss
Please suggest a way to avoid data loss. I googled a lot but most are perl... (11 Replies)
We have a log file which has 16 million row. We want to read all the lines appended from the last time we read using sed command
sed -n '<START_LINE>,<LAST_LINE>p' abc.csv
I can store this last line line so I can give replace that with START_LINE in my next read. The problem is wc -l which... (2 Replies)
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tailf
TAILF(1) User Commands TAILF(1)NAME
tailf - follow the growth of a log file
SYNOPSIS
tailf [OPTION] file
DESCRIPTION
tailf will print out the last 10 lines of a file and then wait for the file to grow. It is similar to tail -f but does not access the file
when it is not growing. This has the side effect of not updating the access time for the file, so a filesystem flush does not occur peri-
odically when no log activity is happening.
tailf is extremely useful for monitoring log files on a laptop when logging is infrequent and the user desires that the hard disk spin down
to conserve battery life.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-n, --lines=N, -N
output the last N lines, instead of the last 10.
-V, --version
Output version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display help and exit.
AUTHOR
This program was originally written by Rik Faith (faith@acm.org) and may be freely distributed under the terms of the X11/MIT License.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.
The latest inotify based implementation was written by Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com).
SEE ALSO tail(1), less(1)AVAILABILITY
The tailf command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux February 2003 TAILF(1)