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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Tail -f Command help Post 303026584 by jitensetia on Friday 30th of November 2018 01:44:39 AM
Old 11-30-2018
Hi Don Cragun,

I cannot share the file data over here due to company policies, and even there is no code written for this...
I just login into server through Putty and use tail -f server.log
to see the contents of the logs. And this file keeps only appending with new logs (ERROR, WARN and INFO lines), it does not edit the previous lines which have already written in past.

I just wanted to have this file to be copied/synced in my local windows drive so that I can view the logs realtime (but in Windows drive).

when you tail should be all you need to keep with with changes being added to the file on the remote server and should also be able to keep a local copy of the file up-to-date with text appended to that file on the remote system, can you elaborate how this can be achieved.

Thanks in advance and Sorry if I missed anything.
 

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getbuildlog

GETBUILDLOG(1)						      General Commands Manual						    GETBUILDLOG(1)

NAME

       getbuildlog - download build logs from Debian auto-builders

SYNOPSIS

       getbuildlog package [version-pattern] [architecture-pattern]

DESCRIPTION

       getbuildlog downloads build logs of package from Debian auto-builders. It downloads build logs of all versions and for all architectures if
       version-pattern and architecture-pattern are not specified or empty, otherwise only build logs whose  versions  match  version-pattern  and
       build  logs  whose  architectures  match  architecture-pattern will be downloaded. The version and architecture patterns are interpreted as
       extended regular expressions as described in grep(1).

       If version-pattern is "last" then only the logs for the most recent version of package found on buildd.debian.org will be downloaded.

       If version-pattern is "last-all" then the logs for the most recent version found on each build log index will be downloaded.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show usage information and examples.

       -V, --version
	      Show version and copyright information.

EXAMPLES

       getbuildlog hello 2.2-1 amd64
	      Download amd64 build log for hello version 2.2-1.

       getbuildlog glibc "" mips.*
	      Download mips(el) build logs of all glibc versions.

       getbuildlog wesnoth .*bpo.*
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AUTHOR

       Written by Frank S. Thomas <fst@debian.org>.

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