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by radarsat1 728 days ago
Looks nice. One feature I'd like is a read-only mode. Sometimes I want to execute a long running process and be able to just watch it run without risking that I hit Ctrl C by accident. I was surprised to find that Screen doesn't support this, I guess probably tmux does. tail is fine but I don't always want to record a huge log file.
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Have you tried https://tmate.io/ ? It's a fork of tmux that, on startup, gives you web links and ssh connection strings to connect to the session. For each connection method you get one adress for read-only access and one for normal access.
| /dev/null ?
I guess they mean they want to be able to look at latest stdout/err without having to write it to a file, but not discarding it all
How would you tail /dev/null?
| tee /dev/null