tail / grep

[Chris Wong]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Joseph Key wrote:

> I did some testing of a tail followed by a grep redirected to a file.  
> I found that when the command is run without the -f in the tail it
> works fine. Why are you using -f in tail? 

That's for continuous output.

> I think the problem is to get a useful output you need to end with a
> control-c this kills the tail and grep before they can redirect.  

No, I think it SHOULD work. I"ll try to research it a bit more.