Re: awk question (actively tail a file & notify when expression is found)

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:38:47 -0700, Evuraan::ഏവൂരാന്‍  <evur...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> but this below, does not work
> 
>  tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log |awk ' /192.168.1.100/ {  print
> $0 | "mail m...@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 m...@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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Polytropon
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