On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:50:13PM EDT, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:50:50AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How do you run tail and not have it fold the output? > > > > E.g. I run: > > > > tail -s 1 -n 40 -f kern.log > > > > But it folds the output so that what is messy is now messier... > > So you want the lines to be cut off at the end of the screen rather than > wrapping onto the next line? You can do this with: > > tail -s 1 -n 40 -f kern.log | cut -c 1-80 > > (I'm assuming an 80-column display. Change the '1-80' to match your > screen size if this assumption is not correct.) > > That doesn't seem terribly useful to me, though, since it discards a lot > of potentially important information. Did I misunderstand what you were > looking for? > That's also the way I understand the OP's query.
Another possible solution: $ less kern.log Shift+F /* switch to 'forward for ever' mode */ right/left-arrow /* to pan the display left/right */ Ctrl+C /* return to regular display mode */ h /* display less's keyboard controls * Another nice thing about this method is that once you have switched back to "regular" display mode, you can do stuff like searching backward for another occurrence of a message etc.. Thanks cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
