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tail -f will hang around and output new lines that appear in the file.

fzf will receive that input and in this case accumulate the new lines that have come in from tail -f. It will then stay around, present an interactive full screen text ui, and let you interactively filter the set of received lines based on substrings you enter at the fzf prompt. This while continuously incorporating new log lines coming from the pipe, from tail -f. The +s just says not to sort the lines, keeping the matches in the same order they appeared in the logs.



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