implementing tail command

i want to write a program that implement tail and tail -f command in
unix.
can any one help me in this?

re: implementing tail command

On Sep 24, 8:56 am, lak <lakindi...@gmail.comwrote:You might want to (re)read the comp.lang.c thread from last week that
asked this very question.

Lew

re: implementing tail command

lak wrote:You could read the thread on this subject from last week, as Lew has
suggested.

You could more relevantly ask the question in comp.unix.programmer
(checking the FAQ and the archives - using Google Groups - before
posting your question would be a good thing).

re: implementing tail command

lak wrote:Yes. At the prompt, type "tail <filename>" (or "tail -f
<filename>"). "which tail" and "man tail" may also be of
interest. This is off-topic in c.l.c.

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re: implementing tail command

CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.comwrites:Oh, come on. Since he posted in comp.lang.c, we can assume he wants
to write a C program.

Implementing "tail" in standard C is a fairly interesting problem.
"tail -f" can't be reasonably implemented in purely standard C.

The real problem, of course, is that we discussed this at some length
just a few days ago.

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re: implementing tail command

CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.comwrites:
No. Using Unix like shell commands are off topic here. Since he is in a
C group I guess it's fairly obvious that he is looking for some C
guidance.

This was discussed just a short while back as you probably well know.

http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.l...1637b?lnk=raot

or

http://tinyurl.com/3xspy5

Your multiple signatures are still disrupting auto-snipping FYI.

re: implementing tail command

lak wrote:Something useful for beginners:
http://c.snippets.org/

Download the zip archive, there are all sort of small programs,
like calc, head, tail, grep etcetera.
Beware tough, a lot of them were written for a DOS environment.