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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Monitor log entries in log files with no Date format? - Efficient logcheck? Post 302747505 by Yoda on Friday 21st of December 2012 12:56:50 PM
Old 12-21-2012
It totally depends on what exactly you want to monitor in your log file. Here is one approach that I want to suggest:-

E.g. if you want to monitor a log for any new occurrence of an exception or error message and it does not have date and time information, then you can go by line number. Each time script find an exception or error message it logs it to a file with date, time & line number information and script uses this file content, compares it during its next run to identify another occurrence.
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