Web implementation of "tail -f filename"?

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Evgenyt picture Evgenyt · Nov 2, 2010 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

I have a log file and want to create a webpage (possibly Python but not strictly) that will work much like unix "tail -f filename" command works (show new log lines when they are written to file).

So that user will continuously see log right in browser.

How would you implement this?

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gvalkov picture gvalkov · Jun 20, 2013

Tailon is a python webapp that, among other things, provides tail -f like functionality. In addition, wtee (a sister project of tailon) can make all its stdin viewable in the browser - its use is identical to the unix tee command: tail -f filename | wtee

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