printing contents of a http file to a shell?

Question

I want to be able to retrieve the contents of a log file stored on a server in the form of:

http://[SOME SORT OF ADDRESS]/file.txt

and print it to a shell which can refresh using something like 'watch' to keep a real time track of this log from a shell rather than having to use a broweser. Is there any neat and simple way of doing this (possibly later wrapped up into a python script).

Answer 1

这将每0.1秒获取一次请求的URL并显示在控制台上

watch -n 0.1  wget -qO- http://google.com

Answer 2

Yes tail -f works on Linux. However this will only work on local files. If the file is remote you will have to repeatedly fetch it to keep the updated (I think).

Answer 3

也许你可以尝试这样的事情：

watch "wget -N http://[SOME SORT OF ADDRESS]/file.txt &> /dev/null; cat file.txt"

Answer 4

while sleep 60; do
    curl address
done

Will print out once a min

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