[yaykittyeee]

Hello,

I am looking for the best way to exit a log file after doing tail -f on a sh file in the hp-ux command line. I've googled the problem and so far haven't found a solution.

I know there is a command for it because I've used it before but I can't remember what it was, if anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated

thanks in advance

[no2pencil]

I always use control c to bail. I don't think that there is a clean way. You could also open a new terminal window, check for the tail pid (process id) with grep ps aux | grep tail | grep -v grep & then kill that pid with -9 kill -9 ${PID}.

[yaykittyeee]

thanks, ctrl+c works

[Gorian]

FYI, CTRL+C works, but did you try q? In my experience, pressing q works for tail, man, less, and a number of other command line programs similar (I'll double check next time I am at work. Not like I keep HP-UX sitting around at home!). Also, feels for you on using HP-UX