I'd like to tail a log file that's continuously being written to but would like to exclude various entries that are 'common' so I only see errors, etc. as they are thrown. I can pipe to grep -v "pattern" but would ideally like to use a file containing entries to skip. Any ideas?
Tail -v a file while excluding a list of words
greptail
Best Answer
You can use
grep -v "pattern"
like you said. But instead ofpattern
useRemember to include the backtics. So your command would look like: