Hi,

Is there a platform independant way to do a "tail -f <file>" with ant?

Here is what the -f option does:
Follow. The program  will not terminate after the line of the input-file
has  been  copied,  but  will enter  an endless loop, wherein it sleeps for
a second and then attempts to read  and  copy further records from the
input-file.  Thus it may be used to monitor the growth of a file that is
being written by some other process.

I'd like to be able to display the content of a log file in a real-time
fashion. The tail -f could be stopped by hitting a key for example.

Any idea?

Thanks,

Patrick




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