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

[Les Pritchard]

yes that will improve my efficiency by almost 30% :-)

On 1 March 2010 11:17, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Les, Did you know there is actually a command called tailf that does
> exactly the same as tail -f means two chars saved ;)
>
> 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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