On Dec 2, 8:53 am, 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. >
I have had to do this in the past and I use unix commands: https://gist.github.com/726875 The code above runs a unix command in a separate thread and executes a given function, f, on a sequence of output lines. It handles restarts if the command gets killed by a log rotation. For the actual tail command I'd recommend looking at a recent version of GNU tail or install inotail - a filewatching API which makes these commands much more efficient: http://distanz.ch/inotail/ Saul -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
