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

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

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

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\ m...@email.address)}' but this below, does not work tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log

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

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:

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

nevermind, i got it to work, with a little help from http://student.northpark.edu/pemente/awk/awk_sys.txt, tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | awk '/192.168.1.100/ {system(echo $0 | mailx -s test_email m...@email.com ) }' thx..! 2009/4/22 Bill Campbell free...@celestial.com: You might want