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		jcfrei on March 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop using tail -f (mostly) The biggest nag I have with tail is that it stops tracking a file once it gets moved and a new one is created in its place (through log rotation).

vially on March 30, 2015 [–]

As mentioned by others in this thread, you can use: "tail -F data.log"

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