>>>>> "MT" == Mikhail T. writes: MT> Why does not the script below actually ever exit?
MT> #!/bin/sh
MT> if tail -f /var/log/messages | awk '{print "Exiting"; exit 0}'
MT> then
MT> echo Exited
MT> else
MT> echo Failed
MT> fi
MT> exit 0
MT> Awk exits as advertised, but tail stays around -- even though its
MT> stdout is closed... Why?
---start quote from man 1 tail---
-f The -f option causes tail to not stop when end of file is
reached, but rather to wait for additional data to be appended to
the input. The -f option is ignored if the standard input is a
pipe, but not if it is a FIFO.
---end quote---
try without "-f" option
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Max N. Boyarov
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