Then there is this method, but I guess that article refers to no redirection output.
If in background or via cron, I always redirect. But this is for UN*X type systems with a tail that supports '-f'
$ prog > /tmp/log.txt 2>&1 &
Then
$ tail -f /tmp/log.txt
Just so happens, I actually used this the other day for a long running process on OpenBSD :)
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$ prog | tee /tmp/log.txt
So, tail suites my needs in the rare cases something unexpected seems to be happening.
Then there is this method, but I guess that article refers to no redirection output.
If in background or via cron, I always redirect. But this is for UN*X type systems with a tail that supports '-f'
$ prog > /tmp/log.txt 2>&1 &
Then
$ tail -f /tmp/log.txt
Just so happens, I actually used this the other day for a long running process on OpenBSD :)