[Chester LUG] Some cool commands you may not have known about

[David Holden]

On Monday 01 March 2010 11:17:19 Stuart Burns wrote:
> Les, Did you know there is actually a command called tailf that does
>  exactly the same as tail -f means two chars saved ;)

or use xtail and monitor multiple files at the same time.

Dave.


> 
> On 1 March 2010 10:36, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Some handy hints there. I also use tail -f /var/log/messages as a handy
> > way to monitor the file (or any other for that matter).
> >
> > On 1 March 2010 09:55, Ben Arnold <iamseawolf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sunday 28 February 2010 22:41:57 Stuart Burns wrote:
> >> > Firstly lets start simple: mtr
> >>
> >> Oh stars, that's good! Cheers!
> >> The mtr on Fedora needs to run under sudo though, or chmod 4755
> >> /usr/sbin/mtr
> >>
> >> > Secondly, watch.
> >>
> >> Yesterday I put watch df -h in to a script for exactly that reason!
> >> xterm -e 'sudo watch -n 5 cat /var/log/messages'
> >> is a good one :)
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Ben Arnold
> >> Chester, UK
> >>
> >> e: iamseawolf at gmail.com
> >> e: ben at seawolfsanctuary.com
> >> w: seawolfsanctuary.com
> >>
> >> nom = { :cookies => :mouth }
> >> nom; nom; nom
> >>
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