Tailing a file in Clojure?

Question

What would be the best method to tail a file in Clojure? I haven\'t come across any utilities that would help do so, but ideas on how to build one would be appreciated!

Answer 1

You can use RandomAccessFile to seek directly to the end of the file and search for linebreaks from there. Not as elegant and short as the take-last approach, but also not O(n) which might matter for big file sizes.

No solution for tail -f, though. Some inspiration might be found in JLogTailer.