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From:
drieux
Date:
April 2, 2002 07:11
Subject:
Re: Better "tail -f"
Message ID:
D0FE00D6-464B-11D6-9A04-0030654D3CAE@wetware.com

On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 04:30 , Bruno Figueira wrote:

> However, if another program removes (all) lines from the file referenced 
> by
> FH, perl looses the trailing (for a undetermined time). How do I improve
> this code to understand the file was changed?

I misread your problem - then ran into it...
used the p2 code from yesterday in p2>filename
and it made:

http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/file_change_while_tailing.
txt

act stoopid - till I put the spare subroutine into reset
to begining....

ciao
drieux

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