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Since
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since is a tail(1) with state - it allows the user to
view only the lines appended to a log file since the last
time since was used.
Installation Instructions
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To build the executable type:
make
To copy the executable and manual page, become root and type:
make install
The default locations are:
/usr/local/bin/since
/usr/local/man/man1/since.1
Use
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To understand how it works run the commands:
make
echo "First line" >> testlogfile
./since testlogfile
echo "Second line" >> testlogfile
./since testlogfile
rm testlogfile
You might want to set up the following alias:
alias dosince='since /var/log/messages /var/log/xferlog'
Since is released under the terms of the GNU public
license. Click accept now... errr... sorry... just
look at COPYING.
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