On the qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> >>Does anyone know of a way to monitor a file for occurences of
>> >>certain words? I tried 'tail -f $FILE | grep $TRIGGERS | less +F'
>
>I cannot reproduce any delays using "tail -f $FILE | grep $TRIGGERS",
>except for a little delay of about one second.
Errr ... errrrrrrrrrrrrrr ...
Sorry Dave, maybe the problem is with less after all. Should
know better that to rely on hazy recollections :-) Went back
to my correspondence with 'less' author, and found that my
"internal grep buffer" was an assumption on his part to explain
my problem, which I accepted without checking that that was the
case.
In fact, 'tail -f $FILE | less +F' is no good either. OK, so
'tail -f $FILE | grep $TRIGGERS', my xterm scrollbar, and a
'less' on the side will suffice until I get the time to patch
'less' to get the feature I want. Sorry for the off-topic
posts.
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