Re: reading files

[space_monk]

From what I'm reading, I really think you should be approaching the problem differently. This might be heresy on here, but rather than writing some fancy PERL, maybe you should be letting your system do the work for you?

What you're describing really sounds as though its something that should be written to the system log and tracked there. Then there are nice friendly tools to rotate your logs and ensure they don't get out of hand :-)

[Anonymous Monk]

or you can like, TAIL the log instead of CATing it :) tail -n 100