Kamal Ahmed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to implement tail -f in perl wihout using external
> packages like File::Tail
Yes, there are many ways to do that. I would suggest either:
my @tailf=( '/bin/tail', '-f', $file );
system( @tailf );
or try "perldoc -m File::Tail" and then work out what you need...
But you ought to have good reasons WHY you want to do that?
happy debugging
poul
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