in reply to reading output from another script
open my $pipe => "tail -f /syslog.log" or die "Fork failed: $!"; while (<$pipe>) { ... whatever ... }
But beaware of pipe buffers.
Abigail
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Seekers of Perl Wisdom
in reply to reading output from another script
open my $pipe => "tail -f /syslog.log" or die "Fork failed: $!"; while (<$pipe>) { ... whatever ... }
But beaware of pipe buffers.
Abigail