One advantage that tail -f has is that you can insert newlines or other characte...

mrinterweb on March 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop using tail -f (mostly)

One advantage that tail -f has is that you can insert newlines or other characters into the output to help you visually split log entries. Log files often look the same so being able to visually split up the log is very helpful IMO.