From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2007-08-22T19:13:52+09:00
Subject: Re: tail, start reading at EOF

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 22. Aug 2007, 18:20:12 +0900 schrieb Rebhan, Gilbert:
> how to alter tail function to start at the end
> of the file, not reading the lines already existing in file ? =

  file.seek 0, IO::SEEK_END

> File = File.open(ARGV[0]) 
> while File.exists?(file.path)
>     puts file.gets while !file.eof?
>     sleep(1)
> end

File#eof? does not work here. When the file has been
extended it still returns true even though File#gets will
return a String object.

Bertram


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