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Re:Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything by ian-bateman on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:20PM (#27816231)
>couldn’t you pause/unpause the stdout with ctrl-s/ctrl-q instead?

edit: child comment is a better solution.

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Re:Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything by knodi123 on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:35PM (#27816324)
uh... doesn't watch just run the command over and over? I would have thought this would just print the entire file every n seconds. Now using tail with that instead of cat....
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Re:Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything by MawKKe on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:25PM (#27816271)
couldn’t you pause/unpause the stdout with ctrl-s/ctrl-q instead?
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