Re: ruby tail

IO.peopen("tail -f access_log") とかするんなら普通にFile.openの方がいいですね

Actually, I am not sure how this would work. If I do this, I get no output from the file: `tail -f sim.out` So there is something basic I am missing here. Any help? TIA, Phy ----- Original Message ---- From: Kevin Jackson <[email protected]> To: ruby-talk ML <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:33:19 AM Subject: Re: ruby tail > Is there a gem or perhaps a method I am not aware of that does the similar function of tail? Or is there a way to use tail in ruby? I have a file that I want to process as new data is appended to the file. This is easy enough using tail and tail has the added advantage that it can follow a file if it is "rolled". Just call out to tail def tail(f) `tail f` end or similar - if tail does what you want, use it Kev

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