danmcb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I have a log file which contains SOAP messages, and they're long. Very long. Each message ends up as a line of maybe 700 chars or so.
If this was an apache log, I would of course just do tail -f on it and use that to debug. But that won't work, it's too damn unreadable to be useful..
Of course, using perl to decode XML is a cinch. But How can I get perl to be a wrapper on tail -f, so that I can see formatted or filtered messages in real time, without all the crud?
Thank you kindly!
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