Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!nsc!taux01!amos From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: q: being notified of new mail Message-ID: <409@taux01.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 17:35:44 EST Article-I.D.: taux01.409 Posted: Sat Dec 5 17:35:44 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 22:07:16 EST References: <4350001@wdl1.UUCP> <3600001@hpiacla.HP.COM> <4516@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1987Dec3.000951.15189@lsuc.uucp> <1308@bucsb.UUCP> Reply-To: amos%taux01@nsc.com (Amos Shapir) Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd. Home of the 32532 Lines: 9 Summary: Shell is beautiful Hdate: 15 Kislev 5748 While we are at it: you don't even need a special program to do that - I'm using a shell file that keeps the output of 'wc' in a sh variable, and may use it as an argument to 'tail' if the contents of the watched file are wanted. (Implementation is left as an exercise to the reader). -- Amos Shapir (My other cpu is a NS32532) National Semiconductor (Israel) 6 Maskit st. P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel Tel. +972 52 522261 amos%taux01@nsc.com (used to be amos%nsta@nsc.com) 34 48 E / 32 10 N