Interesting. I always preferred watch -n 1 -d 'tail /path/to/log/file' to tail -... | Hacker News

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		r0naa on March 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop using tail -f (mostly) Interesting. I always preferred `watch -n 1 -d 'tail /path/to/log/file'` to tail -f because of its nice highlighting feature.

pimlottc on March 31, 2015 [–]

watch is one of the great unsung heroes of unix tools. Discovering it was one of those "I wish I knew about this years ago" moments. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have spread much beyond GNU/Linux platforms.

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