The 'tail' Command In Linux

Become A Channel Member:

[kiri]

tail -f has been a godsend throughout the years to set up a workspace without a graphical environment - in the context of an OS paradigm where a tonne of things are files it's very helpful!

[CrabSpy]

Tail is a top tier command, but I would have loved to see the difference between the f and F flags explained. I've burnt myself using -f instead of -F before :(

[jamespilcher]

Finally, a linux command i actually use regularly

[knoxduder]

I call foo-ey on it being your favorite.

[grgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgr]

Actually took me a while to figure out that these videos are ai generated.

[alexrabochii]

That was a really good overview, thank you!!

[samable]

I don"t know what you're talking about but I liked this video because of your voice

[cpuchip]

Hey! Finally a cammand I actually know a little bit about!

[berndeckenfels]

What does -f do together with -n 0? Like no historic lines?

[nikolaikalashnikov]

What would you recommend for College Students to be able to protect themselves & "prove their innocence" (in a Culture where unfortunately we're assumed Guilty) from the accusation that their Essay was written by Artificial Intelligence ??? ...Because one way that I've thought of, would be like TAIL pipped into a Git repo that would at least preserve all the History of edits that your paper went thru [sic] before the final draft. What do you think ?

[kyle-silver]

Bryan Cantrill has a lightning talk on why tail -f can be quite tricksy (hint: be careful about truncating a file!)

[somebody-anonymous]

Makes me wonder if head -f also exists and works if you prepend to a log file :P

[AhmedKamalYazeed]

Do you actually say `x is my fav command` for all of em :)