This must've been done before: I want to keep a log file open in terminal so I can monitor updates to it as they occur. My searches are coming up with everything but this situation… I must be missing some terminology or something key, because people do this all the time inside of other programs (NetBeans, or rails server, for example).
Linux – some way to keep a live-updating log file open in terminal
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sorry if I'll tell you something that could be obvious, but: have you tried if that application can run under WINE?
Just because I saw the website of cam2pc and it has a lot of features that, for sure, could be reproducted on any Unix machine, using many little tools (for example cron, wget, diff, mkdir, mv and so on), but it requires to have some skills and/or a little of spare time.
While I'm here, I would suggest you to take a look at DigiKam and at F-Spot as well that, although don't have all the features you are requiring, maybe could help you to do some useful tricks.
Hope that helps.
EDIT: I tried cam2pc inside my box (Ubuntu 9.04 64bit) under WINE and it worked like a charm! Here's a screenshot where you can see my desktop with cam2pc running and a terminal with the outputs of uname -a and wine --version:
There are two things that leap immediately to mind...
tail -f
or
multitail
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Try with:
where
-fstands for follow.