Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:14:07 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk question (actively tail a file & notify when expression is found) Message-ID: <20090422201407.GA9323@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <6fbcd0710904221238r1cb63d41qaa331beb683ffa95@mail.gmail.com> References: <6fbcd0710904221238r1cb63d41qaa331beb683ffa95@mail.gmail.com>
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You might want to look at ``swatch'' which is designed to do
this, and monitors multiple log files simultaneously.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009, Evuraan::???????????????????????? wrote:
>Greetings..!
>
>this works,
>
>tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | nawk '/192.168.1.100/{ print $0 }'
>
>and this too:
>
> tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log |awk ' /192.168.1.100/ { system
>("mail -s \"This works\" me@email.address")}'
>
>but this below, does not work
>
> tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log |awk ' /192.168.1.100/ { print
>$0 | "mail me@email.address "}'
>
>Any pointers would be much appreciated.
>
>Thx.
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