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I don't want to have to keep reloaded a log file manually, I want to automatically see my logs as they come in.

Apparently, VIM has this feature built in, something called autoread, but I can't get it to work in Ubuntu

I can run

sudo vi ~/.vimrc

to edit vim's config file like so:

 set number

 set autoread

The number argument works perfectly. autoread doesn't work at all.

Any ideas or hacks? I want VIM to automatically scroll the bottom of the file when a file it's viewing is updated as well.

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answered 3 Years ago serveeel · Accepted Answer

The tail command does exactly what I want...does it a little better actually:

tail /var/logs/foo.log

That will automatically print of foo.log to the console, and, when foo.log is updated, this will be reflected in the console.