Context is looking to grab a quick snapshot of fly logs from CLI but without leaving the cli process streaming in the console.
Imagining a sort of non-follow/watch option for fly logs (like tail -n type thing) that could one-shot grab some lines from the latest logs and exit. Or is there some bash-fu that might accomplish that by running it and killing it after a delay/amount of input?
(Thought I had lead on a solution with | tail -n 10 or | head -n 10 but didn’t seem to work consistently - with repeated runs would sometimes continue streaming sometimes return immediately)
This worked for me:
timeout 1 fly logs > blahblah.log
timeout will kill the (otherwise long-running) command after 1 second - it’s enough to grab the most recent logs as you needed.
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