Reading a File As It's Being Written

The below code describes how to read a file when a particular file is actively being written. Here is a full example. For the below example the mentioned file should be existed in the mentioned path else it will throw FileNotFoundException.

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ReadingFileWhileWrite extends Thread {

    boolean running = true;
    BufferedInputStream reader = null;

    public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
        ReadingFileWhileWrite tw = new ReadingFileWhileWrite();
        tw.reader = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream("TestFile.txt"));
        tw.start();
    }

    public void run() {
        while (running) {
            try {
                if (reader.available() > 0) {
                    System.out.print((char) reader.read());
                } else {
                    try {
                        sleep(500);
                    } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                        running = false;
                    }
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }

}

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