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From: | Philip Durbin |
Subject: | Re: Piping tail -f to fold: tail -f log.txt | fold |
Date: | Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:17:39 -0500 |
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Bob Proulx wrote:
Philip Durbin wrote:To word wrap the output of a growing log file I tried. . . $ tail -f log.txt | fold -s. . . and it works fine on NetBSD and Mac OS X, but on the two Linux distributions I tried (Red Hat and SUSE) I get no output.This topic comes up periodically. Please see this reference for a recent more thorough discussion: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-11/msg00134.html
Thank you, Bob. I appreciate it. Phil
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