Or the FileHandle module even
Update: changed vars to more descriptive names
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use FileHandle;
# what to watch
my %monitor = (
'messages' => '/var/adm/messages',
);
# how to watch it.
my %handles;
for ( keys %monitor ) {
$handles{ monitor{$_} } = new FileHandle "$monitor{$_}", "r"
or die "Cant open $monitor{$_}: $!\n";
}
# And use it
# WARNING blocking code ahead!!
my $sentinel; # how we get out of the while 1
while (1) {
last if $sentinel;
while ( my($file, $fh) = each %handles ) {
chomp(my $line = <$fh>);
print "Saw in file: $file\n$line\n\n";
$sentinel++ if $line =~ m/somethingorother/;
}
}
Also File::Tail might be of some use along the same lines
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