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Alternative Root-Tail on your Desktop

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 29, 2008

[ Thanks to Borys
Musielak
for this link. ]

“Sometimes, while working with a computer one may find it useful
to view the content of a certain file, like a system log, or a
report of a longer process. Sometimes, however, one might wish to
be spared the constant switching to the console and typing cat; it
would be best if the content of a necessary file could be
integrated into the desktop.

“A solution to this problem came a couple of years ago with the
application root-tail…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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