Hi Viksit,
For production support, I also wanted to "tail -f" a file on a
Windows server with no "tail" facility (no one had installed the
Windows Resource Kit yet, and executing the install file myself
would've been prohibitive (it's a long story)). However, this Windows
server did have Java. I thought to write a "tail -f" with clojure
until I discovered the JDK installed was 1.4.2.
I found an old version of Jython that was compatible (at the time,
I used jython 2.1 and 2.2) and wrote a Jython script that implemented
"tail -f" for me. It's not clojure, but it did solve my initial
problem, which was doing a "tail -f" on a log file. I didn't build any
parsing facility because I was content to have the file write out to a
Windows GUI dialog.
I realise it's not exactly what you want, but it's ready (with no
guarantees that it's safe, as with any code received from strangers)
and located in it's entirety at:
https://sites.google.com/site/kevinkwoo/work/guitail-fforjython21-1
It should be publicly accessible, but if it's not do let me know!
Regards,
Kevin
On Dec 2, 6:53 pm, viksit <vik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What would you recommend as the best method to tail a file using
> Clojure? Are there any built in functions in contrib or core that
> allow a program to read the last line of a file as it is appended to?
> If not - how do people solve a problem like this?
>
> My aim is simple - I've got a log file and I'd like to parse it as it
> gets appended to.
>
> Thanks
> Viksit
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