Ben Cotton

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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.

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`curl -I -s https://opensource.com` just gives header info. Without, you get the HTML from the page.

Great article. One `tail` trick that comes in really handy for me is to use `-F`. This follows log files as they get rotated and waits for the file to exist if it doesn't. This makes it really useful for watching daemon logs.