in reply to tail pipe
Please show your code, it might be easier to understabnd exactly what you are doing and to help you out.
Here is the program. It assumes that that the MS tookit tail has been installed on the computer.
#! /usr/bin/perl my $cmdtorun = "tail -f D:/prjct/logger/2013-06-05.dlg |"; open(TL, $cmdtorun) || die "Failed: $!\n"; while ( <TL> ) { print "Got: $_\n"; } [download]