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You might be interested in POE::Wheel::FollowTail, although it doesn't exactly match your criteria.
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Re: Re: Simulating UNIX's "tail" in core Perl
by petral (Curate) on Mar 08, 2001 at 04:11 UTC
    POE::Wheel::FollowTail is great because you can deal with it in callbacks.
    File::Tail has other features, like the file doesn't have to already be there and you can move the file out from under it and slip in a new one and it keeps on ticking, etc.

    p
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