Answer by Dennis Williamson for "tail -f" alternate which doesn't scroll the...
Combining several ideas from other answers plus a couple of other tricks, this will output the file without clearing the screen or scrolling (except for the first cycle if the prompt is at the bottom...
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The canonical (and easiest, and most flexible) answer is watch, as others have said. But if you want to see just the first line of a file, here's an alternative that neither clears nor scrolls the...
View ArticleAnswer by Omnifarious for "tail -f" alternate which doesn't scroll the...
My favorite, which works in places that don't have watch, is this:while true; do clear ; cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state ; sleep 10; done
View ArticleAnswer by gabuzo for "tail -f" alternate which doesn't scroll the terminal...
watch is your friend. It uses curses so it won't scroll your terminal.Usage: watch [-dhntv] [--differences[=cumulative]] [--help] [--interval=<n>] [--no-title] [--version] <command> -d,...
View ArticleAnswer by SiegeX for "tail -f" alternate which doesn't scroll the terminal...
watch -n 10 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/stateYou can add the -d flag if you want it to highlight the differences from one iteration to the next.
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I want to check a file at continuous intervals for contents which keep changing. "tail -f" doesn't suffice as the file doesn't grow in size.I could use a simple while loop in bash to the same...
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