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Re:Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything by anyfoo on Monday July 12, 2021 @05:51PM (#27815533)
I love to press enter a few times to add a few empty lines to serve as a marker. Plus, I set my terminal scrollback buffer to 10000 lines (not a problem nowadays), so cmd-F in the terminal works pretty well. And I prefer the natural/kinetic scrolling of the terminal backlog to less as a fullscreen tty program.

Finally, as the article alludes to, tail can monitor multiple files at once.

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Re:Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything by pimlottc on Monday July 12, 2021 @08:02PM (#27816458)
> I love to press enter a few times to add a few empty lines to serve as a marker.

Same! If it weren’t for this, I’d use less, as the searchability is often handy.

But it’s funny how just one tiny (and possible unintended?) “feature” turns out to be so dang useful that I keep using tail.

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Re:Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything by anyfoo on Monday July 12, 2021 @09:07PM (#27816778)
Yeah, right? It's not even really a "feature" of anything, just an artifact of how teletype support was originally implemented in UNIX, and yet I've been hitting the enter key for my own "marks" for decades.
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Re:Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything by a1369209993 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:35AM (#27818159)
> But it's funny how just one tiny (and possible unintended?) "feature" turns out to be so dang useful that I keep using tail.

"Dangling by a trivial feature"[0] seems to be a pretty common issue when people recommend 'better' software.

0: http://prog21.dadgum.com/160.html

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Re:Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything by kevincox on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:15AM (#27821254)
I found myself doing this as well and decided to write a simple tool to do it "automatically" for me.

You still can't use it with less, but at least it allows you to mark "segments" of the log without switching to that window and mashing enter.

https://gitlab.com/kevincox/watchlog

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Re:Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything by ranko on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:14AM (#27818928)
less has its own system of bookmarks: use m followed by a lowercase letter to set a mark and single quote followed by a single letter to jump to that mark. I assume that this means we can have up to 26 bookmarks, though I normally don't go much beyond two.
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Re:Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything by petepete on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:58AM (#27819170)
You can use capital letters in less too, so at least 52.
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