Ruby tail

Wow thats really cool!!!

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----- Original Message ----
From: Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:59:39 AM
Subject: Re: ruby tail

Kevin Jackson wrote:

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?

it shells out to the process and waits for it to return - with -f does
tail ever return? if not you may not be able to use it - AFAIK ` and
exec are the same - someone with better ruby knowledge may be able to
offer a solution - perhaps using threads or something

Use IO.popen:

IO.popen('tail -f sim.out'){|f|
    while line = f.gets
        p line
    end
}

--
Alex

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