一个进程在运行,并在不断的写log,你需要实时监控log文件的更新(一般是debug时用),怎么办,不断的打开,关闭文件吗? 不用,至少有两个方法,来自两个很常用的命令:
- tail -f log.txt, 另外一个进程在写log,而你用tail,就可以实时的打印出新的内容
- less log.txt, 然后如果要监控更新,按F,如果要暂停监控,可以CTRL+C, 这样就可以上下翻页查看,要继续监控了再按F即可。这个功能要比tail更强。
可以很容易的模拟一下:
- 在一个shell中持续更新文件:
$ count=; while true; do echo hello, world $count >> log.txt; count=$(($count+)); sleep 1s; done
- 在另一个shell中tail -f log.txt or less log.txt
写一个类似于tail的程序,其实也蛮简单的:
# Notices:
# 1. the 3rd parameter of open() is to disable file buffering
# so file updated by another process could be picked up correctly
# but since your focus is newly added tail, enable buffering is ok too
# 2. It is not necessary to fh.tell() to save the position, and then seek()
# to resume, as if readline() failed, the pointer stay still at the EOF import sys
import time filename = sys.argv[1] with open(filename, 'r', 0) as fh:
while True:
line = fh.readline()
if not line:
time.sleep(1)
else:
print line
这个可以做为一个不错的面试题。