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Watching for close_write events and using cat (without &) might be a better approach.

Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas

2014-02-26 19:42:45 +00:00
Commented Feb 26, 2014 at 19:42
@Stephane I thought about that but then you will catch all files written to. You could do another inotify on the same file, but if it is closed too quick you won't get anything.

Graeme
– Graeme

2014-02-26 19:47:41 +00:00
Commented Feb 26, 2014 at 19:47
@Stephane, why the IFS=? I don't think that is necessary.

Graeme
– Graeme

2014-02-26 19:53:10 +00:00
Commented Feb 26, 2014 at 19:53
tail is not necessary in an answer, I added to my question to clarify

David Wilkins
– David Wilkins

2014-02-26 20:02:42 +00:00
Commented Feb 26, 2014 at 20:02
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If white space characters (tab and space as in the default value of IFS) are in $IFS, then they'll be removed from the beginning and end of the line. If you want to read a line verbatim, you must always remove the whitespace characters from IFS, the easiest being to set IFS to the empty string.

Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas

2014-02-26 20:07:22 +00:00
Commented Feb 26, 2014 at 20:07

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