Watching a file another app is writing

[Roel Schroeven]

Gordon Airporte schreef:
> Nick Vatamaniuc wrote:
>   > You might need to look at pywin32 for Windows specific ways to listen
>> to "file changed" event.
>>
>> On Unix a quick shortcut would be to simply read the output of 'tail -
>> f <file>' command...
> 
> Ah, I forgot I have Cygwin installed, so I do have tail. Unfortunately 
> Windows will not let most programs save to the file while tail is 
> watching it, and when I force it with vim :w! the output from tail -f 
> does not update. Maybe I'm using it wrong.

Have you tried with tail -F instead of tail -f? With a big F it uses the 
name of the file instead of the file descriptor, and it keeps trying to 
open the file. I'm not sure if it will work, but it's worth a shot.

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Roel Schroeven