Hi guys, I could use as much help on the logic of this, as some helpful code bytes.
I am currently collecting some state data and I save it in my web directory for public consumption every few seconds (when some data events occur).
I have been asked if, rather then serve the file up live, that I serve the file up late by 2 minutes. So I need to keep track of the log files somehow in terms of the order they were created, and then, after 2 minutes, start moving them into the web directory every second.

I was thinking two perl scripts. One creates my log file and copies it to a directory with a unique name (log_localtime.txt). Another perl script loads, waits the specified amount of minutes, and then moves the files (every x seconds) from oldest to newest from the log folder to my web folder.

For this to work, I need to be able to load the files into some perl array from oldest to newest. Any ideas?
After moving the oldest file into the web directory, I'll unlink it.
thanks Tim

In reply to File playback with lag by ecuguru

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