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Re: Prcoessing outoput from tail

Gustav - Railist

3/24/2007 10:41:00 PM

Phy Prabab wrote:
> Hello,
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> I am trying to figure out how to perpetually process the output from a file. That is I continuously want to process output that is appended to a file and that file could get rolled out at any time. I use popen w/tail, but this opens the file each time and I have to reprocess all the files content. Is there a better way to do this or a library that would help me? I know that I could probably open the file, tack location, and watch the inode to make sure the file has not been rolled, but that amounted to a lot of mistakes and I could never get it work properly.
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> Thanks for the help!
> Phy
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Check out the file-tail gem:

http://file-tail.ruby...

Cheery-o,
Gustav Paul