Java IO implementation of unix/linux “tail -f”

Question

I\'m wondering what techniques and/or library to use to implement the functionality of the linux command \"tail -f \". I\'m essentially looking for a drop in add-on/replace

Answer 1

If your code only ever will have to run on Unix systems, you may be able to get away with just shelling out and calling tail -f directly.

As a more involved alternative, you could take a look at the implementation of GNU tail and port that over to Java. (I'm not sure whether this wouldn't already make your code a derivative work, though.)