How to open the alert logs

Hi Team,
I am doing database Refreshment. I want to monitor the alert logs.
Please suggest me, How to open the alert logs. Working on unix server.
Thanks & Regards,

if its 10g then go to bdump directory
you can either do tail -f <alert_log_name>
or vi <alert_log_name>
if 11g then you want should go to
$ORACLE_HOME/diag/$ORACLE_SID
the alert log file is in XML format as well as a text file. The default location of both these files is the new ADR home or Automatic Diagnostic Respository. The ADR is set by using the DIAGNOSTIC_DEST initialization parameter. The location of an ADR home is ADR_BASE/diag/product_type/product_id/instance_id. If the environment variable ORACLE_BASE is not set then DIAGNOSTIC_DEST is set to ORACLE_HOME/log
there are different directories for different types of alert log files
alert - The XML formatted alertlog
trace - text alert log

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