Pádraig Brady wrote:
Philip Durbin wrote:
To word wrap the output of a growing log file I tried. . .
$ tail -f log.txt | fold -s
. . . and it works fine on NetBSD and Mac OS X, but on the two Linux distributions I tried (Red Hat and SUSE) I get no output.
[snip]
Can you see if this works around the problem for you:

tail -f log.txt | LC_ALL=C fold -s

This is *exactly* what I wanted.  Thanks, Pádraig!

Phil


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