diff --git a/repos/libports/recipes/src/stdin2out/content.mk b/repos/libports/recipes/src/stdin2out/content.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..296c5272a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/libports/recipes/src/stdin2out/content.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+MIRROR_FROM_REP_DIR := src/app/stdin2out
+
+content: $(MIRROR_FROM_REP_DIR) LICENSE
+
+$(MIRROR_FROM_REP_DIR):
+	$(mirror_from_rep_dir)
+
+LICENSE:
+	cp $(GENODE_DIR)/LICENSE $@
+
diff --git a/repos/libports/recipes/src/stdin2out/hash b/repos/libports/recipes/src/stdin2out/hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2875e9695
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/libports/recipes/src/stdin2out/hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2020-03-25 35a1a6bf7235f21227af3c813c3527d26d06cffe
diff --git a/repos/libports/recipes/src/stdin2out/used_apis b/repos/libports/recipes/src/stdin2out/used_apis
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0c483273a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/libports/recipes/src/stdin2out/used_apis
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+libc
+posix
diff --git a/repos/libports/src/app/stdin2out/main.cc b/repos/libports/src/app/stdin2out/main.cc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f6f08417c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/libports/src/app/stdin2out/main.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ * \brief  Utility for forwarding data to stdout by polling stdin
+ * \author Norman Feske
+ * \date   2020-03-25
+ *
+ * This program fulfils the purpose of 'tail -f' for the log view of Sculpt OS.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2020 Genode Labs GmbH
+ *
+ * This file is part of the Genode OS framework, which is distributed
+ * under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.
+ */
+
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+extern "C" int main(int, char **)
+{
+	while (true) {
+
+		char buffer[4096] { };
+
+		size_t bytes = read(STDIN_FILENO, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
+
+		if (bytes == 0)
+			sleep(2);
+		else
+			write(STDOUT_FILENO, buffer, bytes);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/repos/libports/src/app/stdin2out/target.mk b/repos/libports/src/app/stdin2out/target.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..37cc87731
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/libports/src/app/stdin2out/target.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+TARGET := stdin2out
+SRC_CC := main.cc
+LIBS   += posix