in reply to Auto-Merging textfiles

Depending on platform and whether you want to poll for changes or be notified by event, you might want to look into File::Monitor, File::Monitor::Simple, Linux::Inotify2, Win32::ChangeNotify (and a couple of more referenced from there).

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Re^2: Auto-Merging textfiles
by Peamasii (Sexton) on Dec 17, 2010 at 17:22 UTC
    Thank you both for your answers, will look into doing it one of these ways.