I'm interested in taking the output of a daemonized shell script that greps for patterns which would act as an argument to a script. Is it better to write this stuff to file and visit the file every few seconds or can this be done a better way. I'm hoping for a more elegant solution. So far I've seen some troubling info about buffer overflows with popen2 but it looks like the low-hanging fruit. I'm not a unixpro so I want to make sure anything I tackle is best practice. Suggestions welcomed.
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