Re: How to do equivalent of Linux 'tail' script into Octave variables?

[Andreas Weber]

Am 22.09.19 um 06:41 schrieb Mark Smith:
> The instrument runs for hours, and creates a comma delimited ASCII data
> file, which has new data appended every second. Can't find a way to get
> incremental data that is added each second.

I use this approach:

Run this in a terminal to simulate your instrument:
$ watch -n1 sh -c "date >> foo"

And in GNU Octave:

fid = fopen ("foo", "r");
while (1)
  l = fgetl (fid)
  if (feof (fid))
    printf ("eof, waiting 2s...\n");
    pause (2);
    fclear (fid);
  endif
endwhile
fclose (fid);

HTH, Andy