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Old 04-21-2009
Tailing 2 or more log files simultaneously PERL

Hi,

I am having issue where I have to tail 3 log files continuously (forever) and while I am reading the files , parse them and shove the data into DB. I can do this with one file totally fine but how can I read 3 files at the same time? I am not really looking for code (but would be nice) but maybe a brief summary of the solution.

Btw: I am doing this in perl.

Any help is highly appreciated Smilie

Thx.
# 2  
Old 04-21-2009
How about separate threads for each file? No idea about threading support in Perl though.
# 3  
Old 04-21-2009
Not sure how to do it in perl but in shell scripting, I'd create a function that would read/parse the file:

Code:
parseFile () {
  fileNm=$1
  do something...
}

then I would call the function all at once in the script...

Code:
parseFile "file1" &
parseFile "file2" &
parseFile "file3" &

wait

etc.

Gianni
# 4  
Old 04-22-2009
I am looking at forking out multiple threads but don't know how well(or not) they will work for my problem.

Thx all.
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