Silly question I'm sure.... but I 'discovered' this great way to look at log files realtime, tail -f path to file.

But then I needed to close it and return to the prompt, and had no idea how to do that, other than disconnect my ssh session.

How am I supposed to do that for real?

Thanks :)

Chris

ctrl + z

ctrl + z

But doesn't ctrl+z just stop the process so you can do something else and then continue it or put it in the background (doesn't make much sense for a tail -f).

crtl+c ends the process. I think this would be what the original poster wants.

good point

Got it, thank you, and happy holidays to both of you!

Chris