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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting removing tee Post 302312800 by pludi on Sunday 3rd of May 2009 12:34:40 PM
Old 05-03-2009
You could do this: at the beginning of your script, put
Code:
tail -f $logfile &

(make sure it's empty first). Save the PID ($!), run your usual script with stdout redirected to the logfile (either by line or by exec 1>$logfile). At the end of your script, kill the tail (you saved the PID, didn't you?)
 

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LOGTAIL(8)							  logtail manual							LOGTAIL(8)

NAME
logtail - print log file lines that have not been read SYNOPSIS
logtail [-t] -flogfile [-ooffsetfile] DESCRIPTION
logtail reads a specified file (usually a log file) and writes to the standard output that part of it which has not been read by previous runs of logtail. It prints the appropriate number of bytes from the end of logfile, assuming that all changes that are made to it are to add new characters to it. logfile must be a plain file. A symlink is not allowed. logtail stores the information about how much of it has already been read in a separate file called offsetfile. offsetfile can be omitted. If omitted, the file named logfile.offset in the same directory which contains logfile is used by default. If offsetfile is not empty, the inode of logfile is checked. If the inode is changed, logtail simply prints the entire file. If the inode is not changed but logfile is shorter than it was at the last run of logtail, it writes a warning message to the standard output. OPTIONS
-f logfile to be read after offset -o offsetfile stores offset of previous run -t test mode - do not change offset in offsetfile RETURN VALUES
0 successful 65 cannot get the size of logfile 66 logfile does not exist, is not a plain file, or is not readable 73 cannot write offsetfile AUTHOR
The original logtail was written in C by Craig H. Rowland <crowland@psionic.com>. This version of logtail is a Perl reimplementation by Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>. Enhanced by the Debian Logcheck Team <logcheck-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>. This manual was written by Oohara Yuuma <oohara@libra.interq.or.jp>. SEE ALSO
logcheck(8) Debian Fri, 19 Nov 2004 LOGTAIL(8)
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