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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: awk question (actively tail a file & notify when expression is
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:38:47 -0700, Evuraan::ഏവൂരാന്‍  <evuraan@gmail.com> wrote:
> but this below, does not work
> 
>  tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log |awk ' /192.168.1.100/ {  print
> $0 | "mail me@email.address  "}'

I would suggest to keep the system() approach:

	tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | awk '/192.168.1.100/ { system(sprintf("echo %s | mail me@email.address", $0)); }'



> Any pointers would be much appreciated.

It should work, but I'm sure someonle else will soon show you
some more elegant way. :-)



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