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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 file since the last
time since was used.
Installation
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To build the executable type:
make
To install the executable and manual page, become root and type:
make install
The default locations are:
/usr/local/bin/since
/usr/local/share/man/man1/since.1
To change the install location use the prefix variable:
make prefix=/usr install
Use
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To understand how since works run the following commands:
make
echo "First line" >> testlogfile
./since testlogfile
echo "Second line" >> testlogfile
./since testlogfile
rm testlogfile
I find it useful to add aliases such as the following to my
.bashrc file
alias dosince='since /var/log/{messages,syslog,mail.log}'
Other
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The since homepage is http://welz.org.za/projects/since
Since is released under the terms of the GNU public license
version 3 or newer, as set out in the file COPYING.
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