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Problem
Would be nice to have a tail -F clone (following file rotations).

Solution
Several working solutions are possible:

• BufferedReader.readLine() + Thread.sleep()
• RandomAccessFile + Thread.sleep()
• https://github.com/apache/commons-io/blob/master/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/input/Tailer.java

Beware: on Windows sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileAttributes#fileKey yields null.

Benefit
Portable alternative to tail -F that works on Windows out-of-the-box.