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Rex::Commands::Tail(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Rex::Commands::Tail(3pm)

NAME

Rex::Commands::Tail - Tail a file

Version <= 1.0: All these functions will not be reported.

All these functions are not idempotent.

DESCRIPTION

With this module you can tail a file.

SYNOPSIS

 tail "/var/log/syslog";

EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

tail($file)

This function will tail the given file. 

 task "syslog", "server01", sub {
   tail "/var/log/syslog";
 };

If you want to control the output format, you can define a callback function:

 task "syslog", "server01", sub {
   tail "/var/log/syslog", sub {
    my ($data) = @_;
 
    my $server = Rex->get_current_connection()->{'server'};
 
    print "$server>> $data\n";
   };
 };
2016-07-21 perl v5.22.2