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, I don't see any particular reason to use File::Tail
oh, I see, the other process is constantly appending to the file and you don't want to get EOF.
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Re^4: launch long running background program and watch final progress
by Marshall (Canon) on Apr 22, 2016 at 21:58 UTC
    Yes, I think that EOF is the issue and why my 2nd idea won't work. But inotify will work. If file is modified, read it and see what happened. Don't continually poll for different content.
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