Bill Campbell wrote: > > The ``swatch'' program, written in perl, does this by using the > gnu-tail program via a pipe using. > > gtail --follow=name --lines=1 file1 file2 ... > > Use the source Luke. > > Bill > Thanks Bill, That looks like the right tool for the job at hand. Looking at setting up the configuration file, a stumbling block in my learning to program is my lack of a good understanding of regular expressions. I have started studying grep, sed and awk. It is a lot more fun to just write little python programs and watch in amazement when they work as expected. I have been avoiding this phase of learning. -david
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