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Re: tail -f in a web page

Author:Emmanuel M. Décarie
Posted:11/6/1999; 5:57:02 PM
Topic:A question for Apache gurus
Msg #:12783 (In response to 12764)
Prev/Next:12781 / 12785

The Perl Cookbook Chapter 8.4 , Reading a File Backwards by Line or Paragraph

Isn't it overkill? You need to read the whole file to get the tail. And I guess, an Apache log is a huge file. As already said Wes, why not using tail instead?

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