On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 07:04 , Nikola Janceski wrote:
> open(TAIL, "tail -f $filename |") or die "no tail $! $?\n";
> while(<TAIL>){
print $_;
> }
> close TAIL;
first off it doesn't seem to work - it is just siting there.
The problem being that 'tail' is looking at the old inode
before the exterior process re-wrote the file
try it at the command line
in window a in window b
tail -f file ./p2 > file
./p2 >file
You need to go 're-seek' the file....
ciao
drieux
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