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Old 02-21-2010
Bug How to perform action on newest line in log using tail?
I don't quite know what I'm doing, so this simple script is proving a challenge.
Here is some pseudo code that doesn't work yet:

Code:
if tail -1 "WORKING.txt" >/dev/null | egrep "^NMBR=*" > /dev/null
    then
curl -k 'http://www.myserver.com/log.cgi?input=$?'
echo "hi there"
 fi


Purpose: Continuously monitor file "WORKING.txt" and check each new line as it is appended for lines that begin "NMBR=(number)" then take the value of the line and send it via curl to my web server as a variable.

Please point me in the right direction! Thanks
Last edited by pludi; 02-22-2010 at 05:27 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 02-21-2010
Try:


Code:
val=`awk -F= '/NMBR/ { _s=$NF; }END { print _s;}' < WORKING.txt`
if [ $val -gt 0 ]
then
curl -k "http://www.myserver.com/log.cgi?input=$val"
fi

# 3  
Old 02-22-2010
Thanks!
That does work, and it's more elegant that my tail solution... BUT it doesn't continuously monitor the log. I would have to put it inside of a while loop and have it sleep. I like tail because it only updates when the file has been modified, rather than every second which is what I would have to do with while.
# 4  
Old 02-22-2010
Wrench
The problem is that more than 1 line could have been added while your script slept Smilie
The best is to perform (Pseudo-code) :
line count (wc -l), calc the difference with previous count, tail the difference from your file, set your previous-count-variable to the new count, sleep, loop.
Code:
OLD=0
while true
do
    COUNT=$(wc -l < $FILE)
    DIFF=$((COUNT-OLD))
    if [ $DIFF -gt 0 ]
    then
        tail -n $DIFF $FILE
        OLD=$COUNT
    elif [ $DIFF -lt 0 ] # Can happen (logrotate...)
        OLD=0
        continue
    fi
    sleep 1
done

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