I am debugging a new application that is crashing. I want to watch the messages as they are being written to the log. What command should I use?
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I am debugging a new application that is crashing. I want to watch the messages as they are being written to the log. What command should I use?
If you’re on a unixy system and your log is a file, you want
tail -f <filename>.If you’re on a Windows system, there are ports of
tailavailable (hat tip – Dave Webb).