preceed it with this then:
do{
sleep 1;
} while (not -e $filename);
of course... you want a more robust tail.. that will require lots of
thought... I don't have enough to spare for this though. I have thought
about this problem before and said, "screw it, let the user do it." ;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Better "tail -f"
>
>
>
> 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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