Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. -- Trotsky
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. -- Trotsky
tail -f outputs too fast? Try this to be able to see more lines with gnu tail:

tail -f [file] | nl | grep -P '00\t'

cat tabToHtml.sh
#!/bin/bash

echo "<html><head><title>$1 html</title></head><body><table border=1><tr><td>" > $1.html
echo "$2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9" | sed "s/ /<\/td><td>/g" >> $1.html
echo "</td><tr>" >> $1.html
cat $1 | sed "s/^/<tr><td>/" | sed "s/ /<\/td><td>/g" | sed 's/$/<\/td><\/tr>/' >> $1.html
echo "</table></body></html>" >> $1.html