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Re: [BackupPC-users] XferLog.z : How do I read this thing?

2012-03-20 17:27:59
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] XferLog.z : How do I read this thing?
From: Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:26:56 -0500
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote on 02/10/2012 
> 10:35:17 AM:
>
> > Seems trivial to me (plus or minus some buffering delay)...
> >
> > tail -n +0 -f /path/to/XferLog.Z | BackupPC_zcat
>
> I just tried your "trivial" command.  It works, sorta:  only after it tails 
> the *entire* file.  The problem with that is, some of my XferLog file have 
> *millions* of lines...  Kinda hard to quickly check the end of the file that 
> way--unless you want to wait minutes for it to scroll the entire file...

What about:
BackupPC_zcat /path/to/XferLog.Z | less

Seemed to work for me but my logs aren't very big.

Also, an oddity. All my logs end with lower case z not Z.

Richard

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