Larry Hall wrote:
> the file deleted by "rm" isn't deleted really until it's closed, which
> won't happen until 'tail' ends. This is the way Windows works. There's
> not much to be done about it (at least not in Cygwin). Believe me,
> we've tried.
Here is a really ugly kludge to deal with a re
At 01:08 PM 5/18/2004, you wrote:
>I can't change the application unfortunately, if I
>could I'd have it only log interesting stuff rather
>than the garbage it does.
>
>Is it worth trying maybe to link the file and tail the
>link ? or mess with a tee command ??
I guess I'm unclear on what you're
I can't change the application unfortunately, if I
could I'd have it only log interesting stuff rather
than the garbage it does.
Is it worth trying maybe to link the file and tail the
link ? or mess with a tee command ??
--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> re tail and win file handles.
>
At 09:31 AM 5/18/2004, you wrote:
>I am sorry if this has been covered before, but I was
>wondering if there is work around (probably not ;-(
>
>In unix you can do the following
>tail -f /somefile
>in another session
>rm -f /somefile
>echo OK > /somefile
>
>of course the tail stops working, but the
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