That is quite an expensive way to do it since it causes sed to read the entire file twice per iteration. You can instead obtain the $now from the file size, and use tail -c to jump to that offset:
Hello:
I'm a very newbee at UNIX/AIX.
What i want to do is to tail a file from the bottom until a certain string is found and write all the lines after the found string to another file.
I've tried out a lot of combination with tail and grep but doesn't find the good one.
Could someone help... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
I have some weird problem that kinda baffles me. Say I have the following test file:
claudia:~/tmp$ cat testfile.txt
This is a test line
This is the second test line
And yeah, this is the third test line
Then say I want to tail the file, grep for the word "third" then... (7 Replies)
The program that is running on my machine generates log files. I want to be able to know the number of lines that contain "FT" in the most recent log file. I wrote the following, but it always returns zero. And I know the count is not zero. Any ideas?
ls -rt *.log | tail -n 1 | grep -c FT (6 Replies)
I need to tail -f a file so I can monitor it as it is being written to. However, there is a lot of garbage in the file that I don't care about. So normally I would just pipe and grep for the string that is important to me. However, in this case, there are two things I need to grep for. I can't... (3 Replies)
I have a basic tail/grep question. I have logs that are generated & kept in a directory called alert_audit. I am using "tail" to see the logs that are coming in, but I only need logs that contain the IP address 10.249.185. or 10.247.231.
Here is the command I have, but it pulls all IP... (3 Replies)
This isn't exactly a question. Just thought I'd share something I just wrote and found useful.
For those of you on modern linux boxen: you may be aware that there's a lovely little tool called notify-send that you can use to send notifications to the desktop. Any experienced shell-scripter could... (0 Replies)
Hello,
How to tail -f multi logfile from multi path in 1 shell script.
File & Path
/usr/home/localmode/mode110l/log/logic/number110/digit110_digit110m4_2013050210.txt
/usr/home/localmode/mode103l/log/logic/number103/digit103_digit103m4_2013050210.txt... (4 Replies)
hi guys,
I perform a sort of monitoring. I have a server running and with
tail -f | grep "Searchstring"I monitor the log-file for recent specific entries. This is ok and works fine.
Now, in addition I want to have my search results not posted into the shell but into a file. I tried:
tail... (3 Replies)
Good Morning,
i ran into some trouble this morning while 'improving' my monitoring stuff. i would like to get a warning when the number of mails sent (outbound) by postfix is above a certain number. so far, so easy. to test that i simply put
cat /var/log/mail.info | grep 'to=<' | grep -v -e... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I would like to write script to tail a file for different environment
But the number of lines are keep changing
How can I write a script
For example:
env could : A, B or C
and log files could be a.log, b.log and c.log
with the number of lines can change
say sometimes it 100 last... (9 Replies)
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logtop
LOGTOP(1) General Commands Manual LOGTOP(1)NAME
logtop - Realtime log line rate analyser
SYNOPSIS
logtop [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
logtop is a System Administrator tool analyzing line rate on stdin.
It reads on stdin and print a constantly updated result
displaying, in columns:
Line number, count, frequency, and the actual line.
$ tail -f FILE | logtop
is the friendly version of:
$ watch 'tail FILE | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr'
OPTIONS -s, --size=K
Only keep K lines in memory, instead of 10000.
-q, --quiet
Do not display a live view of the data, only display a top at exit.
-l, --line-by-line=K
Print result line by line, in a machine friendly format, K is the number of result to print per line.
Line by line format is : [%d %f %s ]*
%d : Number of occurences
%f : Frequency of apparition
%s : String (Control chars replaced by dots.
-i, --interval=K
Interval between graphical updates, in seconds. Defaults to 1.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
EXAMPLES
Here are some logtop usage examples.
tail -f cache.log | grep -o "HIT|MISS" | logtop
Realtime hit / miss ratio on some caching software log file.
tail -f access.log | cut -d' ' -f1 | logtop -s 10000
Realtime most querying IPs on your server, as long as log lines in access.log starts with the client IP.
tail -f access.log | cut -d' ' -f7 | logtop -s 10000
Realtime most requested web pages in a NCSA like log file.
cat auth.log | grep -v "CRON" | grep -o ": .*" | logtop -q -s 100000
Display a one-shot simple analyse of your auth.log.
SEE ALSO watch(1)AUTHOR
logtop was written by Julien Palard.
This manual page was written by Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
April 16, 2011 LOGTOP(1)