This was a response to a Hacker News comment asking me what I've been up to since 2010. I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long." I suppose that's fair, since this ended up being something of an autobiography.
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What happened after 2010?
| # lessf: `less +F` for multiple files, ala `tail -f` | |
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| # Usage: | |
| # lessf file1.log file2.log ... | |
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| # - should work on dash, bash, and zsh; | |
| # - works on macOS and the Linuxes I've tested it on; | |
| # - requires the minimal tools that seem to be available nearly everywhere (`awk`, `mktemp`), and of course `less` | |
| # - you may want `unbuffer` or `stdbuf` to avoid the 4kb of buffering (i.e. no output until enough loglines have been added.) | |
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