Mark Goldstein pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Jan 7, 2008 3:55 PM, G T Smith
wrote: <snip> Sure, I just gave one example where I thought "tail" was good enough and provided quick solution (not "quick and dirty"). I have to admit, I did not use "File::Tail" from pure ignorance and laziness :-). I'll definitely look into it next time I'll need to to something of this sort.
Regards,
Not a programmer just an observer: Wouldn't tailf (preferred over tail -f) possibly create a delay in receiving wanted data while waiting for the buffer to actually write data to the file? -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org