Re: Watch log for string (tail -f)

"Not working" isn't particularly helpful. What is it doing? Any error messages, etc.?

Anyway, here's how I process the a log file with tail -f:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

open my $FH, 'tail -f t |' or die;

while (<$FH>) {
    chomp;
    # processing goes here....
}
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