Off the top .... try piping it through either ( less -o more -o most )
and doing a /what_I_want to find what you are looking for ... I hope it
works ...
J.
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
> On 4 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> > How can you 'watch' a file as it is being written to? For example, I
> > want
> > to have a script watch a log files for certain information and do
> > something when it sees the information.
> >
> > Depending on exactly what you mean, `tail -f' might be helpful.
> >
>
> hmmm.. if 'tail -f filename' continuously outputs using stdout, how could
> I stop it when the text I'm looking for appears? I want tail to terminate
> when it receives the following information:
>
> caller=##########, conn='', name='username'
>
> ..and put those strings in variables for another program to use.
>
> tail -f /var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyS1.log | (
>
> ???
>
> )
>
>
> Thanks
> -Paul
>
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