G'day h123,

Could you not simply use alarm? Here's a barebones example:

Perl script:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie qw{:all};

my $command = './pm_test_no_echo_nl.sh';
my $timeout = 3;

my $pid = open my $pipe_from, '-|', $command;
local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { kill HUP => $pid; die "No data\n" };
alarm $timeout;

while (<$pipe_from>) {
    alarm 0;
    print;
    alarm $timeout;
}

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Shell script:

#!/bin/sh

echo With newline
echo With newline
echo "NO newline\c"
sleep 5
echo With newline

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Output from running the shell script from the command line:

With newline
With newline
NO newlineWith newline

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[When the last line is output, "NO newline" appears immediately, then there's a 5 second delay, then "With newline" appears and the script ends.]

Output from the Perl script:

With newline
With newline
No data

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[The first two lines (containing "With newline") appear immediately, then there's a 3 second delay, then "No data" appears and the script ends immediately.]

You should probably also read the documentation for "/home/<app>/client/bin/<stats>" to determine what the appropriate signal is (for kill) to terminate this program in case it's hanging rather than dying (kill 0 => $pid should tell you that): HUP was fine for my shell script; you may need something different.

See also open (for differences between my syntax and yours) and autodie.

-- Ken

In reply to Re: Check for a new line by kcott
in thread Check for a new line by h123

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