how to continue run script after tail -f command

Question

I have the following script:

tail -f nohup.out
echo 5

When I press Ctrl+C on tail -f, the script stops r

Answer 1

Look up File:Tail in perl, have used this a few times on different projects to automate tailing logs and carrying out a specific action for log output.

google ftp-upload-mon a project I uploaded to sourceforge which uses File:Tail to tail -f xferlogs