in reply to pipe-ing the 'tail' results in 'broken pipe'

See open, perlopentut, If the "open" involved a pipe, the return value happens to be the pid of the subprocess. which means can use kill to kill it, probably :)
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Re^2: pipe-ing the 'tail' results in 'broken pipe'
by angshuman (Novice) on Jun 17, 2013 at 10:19 UTC
    That worked ! Thanks...