tail -f fileName
comes in especially handy when a log file that is being written to needs to be monitored: as soon as a new line is appended to the log file, tail -f
will print it to STDOUT. $ tail -f logFile
tail -f
can be achieved with get-content ‥ -wait
. highlight.pl
is a Perl script that can be used as a template for highlighting words (such as ERROR or WARNING).