Combine tail -f with grep?

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Mar 15, 202657697 views

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Hi I wanna keep looking at a log file, but I also don't wanna see irrelevant stuff, I'm only interested in anything with "foobar" in it. So if I was tailing the file I would do Now that I'm adding the -f option, is there a way to somehow only show the stuff that I want? using grep or other techniqu…

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tail file | grep "foobar"

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