Normally I use tail -F
, but on heavy usage it is getting irresponsible and unreadable.
On ssh I also use buyobu to type password only once. But when any of screens become irresponsible then all screens are blocked. And I can not kill any screen by ctrl+c nor ctrl+d. That why I don’t know how to use Byoubu for all of my needs.
I would like to see something like: tail -F
but which skips efficiently what is above that given rate (f.ex.: 4 pages per 500ms).
Ideally would be in cycles printing X pages and skipping for Y time and then printing last X pages of text but only those which are new.
Does anyone know any tool or command combination to achieve this? Or I need to write my script or program?
Quick but partial solution during "tail freeze":
- detach from byoubu (F6)
- killall tail
- go back to byobu (will preserve previous layout)
kill -STOP
tail for a while...-STOP
signal if I'm not mistaken. But you said ctrl-c & ctrl-d don't work, so maybe this won't either