Not sure exaclty how to say this or if this is the right way to do this but: Say I have a file that is constantly written to, and I want to take the continual input as input for a script, how would that be done? I tried: tail -f inputfile | scriptname But that didnt work, perhaps there is something I need to write in the scriptname to accept that input? Or is it different syntax on the tail? Doing this in KSH. Again sorry for the bad description, but any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I did it two ways with no problem.  In both cases, I was simply echoing the lines received from the tail command.  And in both cases, the scripts keep running until I interrupt them, even if there are no writers to the file being tailed. ./proctail1.ksh #!/bin/ksh IFS= tail -f inputfile | while read line do echo $line done exit 0 and the second way: tail -f inputfile | ./proctail2.ksh #!/bin/ksh IFS= while read line do echo $line done exit 0 What exactly is happening in your case?

Mine just hung there. It would look as though it was reading, but when data was passed to inputfile, the script would not pick it up and echo it. Was quite weird.