Re: Watch contents of log-file - why doesn't it work?

"tail -f file" only lists the last part of the file and not the
beginning?

I want to see the beginning and then in the end continous output
should be added.... "tail -f" doesn't completely do that?

Open the file with less, read to the end then hit F

F Scroll forward, and keep trying to read when the end of file
is
reached. Normally this command would be used when
already at
the end of the file. It is a way to monitor the tail of a
file
which is growing while it is being viewed. (The
behavior is
similar to the "tail -f" command.)


Cheers
.

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