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Old 08-04-2010
copy tail output to an external file in perl
The below code works to tail client.log file. but I want to copy the output into an external file /home/tail.txt

Can anyone please help.

Code:
#!/opt/bin/perl -w
open my $pipe, "-|", "/usr/bin/tail", "/var/log/client.log" or die "could not start tail on /var/log/client.log : $!";
print while <$pipe>;

# 2  
Old 08-04-2010
Code:
#!/opt/bin/perl -w
open my $pipe, "-|", "/usr/bin/tail", "/var/log/client.log" or die "could not start tail on /var/log/client.log : $!";
open (FW,">","/home/tail.txt");
print FW while <$pipe>;
close(FW);

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Old 08-04-2010
Pravin27....It works great Buddy! Thanks a lot.
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