Read and remove lines in file, wait for new lines on end

Question

I'm actually looking for a bash script who monitor a file, execute each new line in the file and then remove the line. When all the file is processed, the script mush wait for new lines.

I searched for any answers but barely found anything more than reading each line in a file.

By the way, is bash efficient at a task like this or should I build a little C program to do this?

Answer 1

The following does everything you ask except for removing the lines from the file:

$ ./script && tail -n0 -f script | while read line; do eval "${line}"; done;

First, just execute the file and then abusing tail and eval you can quite easily approximate the behavior you desire.

Answer 2

If removing the line is not a must, you can also try:

 tail -f filename | parallel eval "{}"