How to monitor a file if it continuously being updated??

[sandhya rani]

In shell scripting How can we monitor a file if it is continuously being updated??

[ghostdog74]

one way is to use the -f option of the tail command.

[Motoma]

one way is to use the -f option of the tail command.

Also, tee is a nice filter that you can pipe through to a file and STDIO at the same time.

[sandhya rani]

thanks for ur replies. It helps me....