Tailing Logs with less

September 22, 2014

less is already an incredibly useful command in linux (GNU/linux for the purists). It’s a better version of more, for paging through files. One not so well known switch for less is the following: less +F [file] The +F option tails the end of the log. Updating when the log changes is buffered, so depending on how noisy your log file is there may be some delay in seeing updates. ...