$ tail -f multtable.txt
0
9
18
27
36
45
54
63
72
81
The code that generated that was:
for ix in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
do
for iy in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
do
n=`expr ${ix} '*' ${iy}`
echo $n >> multtable.txt
done
done
That makes 100 lines. I do a "tail -f" and I see the last 10 lines all day long until someone writes to it. While I can't comment on the data set you are working with I can tell you about the behavior of most *nix commands.
Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg
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