Win32 tail -f emulation

kardster has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I need to port a Unix implementation that uses the Unix "tail -f file | script" command to redirect data to the Perl script STDIN. Whenever file is appended to, the new data is passed to script through STDIN. Any suggestions for emulating this on Windows NT 4.0?

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Re: Win32 tail -f emulation by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 06, 2001 at 01:52 UTC
Have you tried File::Tail? -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: Win32 tail -f emulation by AgentM (Curate) on Mar 06, 2001 at 02:09 UTC
The Perl Power Tools: Unix Reconstruction Project has a working version of tail written in Perl. AgentM Systems nor Nasca Enterprises nor Bone::Easy nor Macperl is responsible for the comments made by AgentM. Remember, you can build any logical system with NOR.	[reply]
Re: Re: Win32 tail -f emulation by kardster (Initiate) on Mar 06, 2001 at 02:40 UTC
I wrote a simple tail in perl, which was as quick as searching for windows tail emulators. The version you recommend will work great! Thanks again.	[reply]
Re: Win32 tail -f emulation by the_slycer (Chaplain) on Mar 06, 2001 at 01:51 UTC
There are lots of ports of tail for windows. Like some of these that may work for you.	[reply]
Re: Win32 tail -f emulation by kardster (Initiate) on Mar 06, 2001 at 02:44 UTC
I went with the Unix Reconstruction Project version of tail. Looks like it will work out well. Thanks for everyone's help.	[reply]

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