Re:Useful Unix commands for exploring data
by discardorama on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @01:17PM
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> Although it breaks one of my other favorite idioms for monitoring log files, "tail -f filename", because the old inode will never be updated
You should look into the '-F' option of tail; it follows the filename, and not the inode.
The rename is atomic; anyone opening "filename" will get either the old version, or the new version. (Although it breaks one of my other favorite idioms for monitoring log files, "tail -f filename", because the old inode will never be updated.)