Help on capturing only latest entries or lines from a logfile(Since last scan/read) on windows

crazy-duck has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

We have plain text file which gets appended with latest events if any specific to application on a windows server, We check the application log file every 1 hour, it will be great help if there is any sample perl script which can achieve this.All we want to do is read the new events and write it to a new logfile.

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Re: Help on capturing only latest entries or lines from a logfile(Since last scan/read) on windows by afoken (Chancellor) on Jul 10, 2015 at 10:16 UTC
Save the log file size to a helper file when your log reader script ends. When the log reader script starts again, read the old log file size back, then open the log file and seek to the old file size. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re: Help on capturing only latest entries or lines from a logfile(Since last scan/read) on windows by i5513 (Pilgrim) on Jul 10, 2015 at 11:51 UTC
Maybe you can be interested on porting logtail2 to windows (or finding an similar stuff on windows) If you install coreutils on windows, you could use "tac file \| grep -m 5 xxx" to see the last 5 times where xxx appeared on the file Regards	[reply]
Re: Help on capturing only latest events from a logfile on windows by Anonymous Monk on Jul 09, 2015 at 23:55 UTC
win log event -> Re: Win32::EventLog searching the wrong logs, Re: Win32::EventLog not returning all events?	[reply]
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