Originally Posted by SkySmart

idealy, i'd like to do something like this:

Code:

while read line
do
        echo $line
done < $(egrep error /var/log/syslog)

but when i do, i get an unexpected response. i.e.

Code:

 
cat test:
 
#!/bin/sh
 
while read line
do
        echo $line
done < $(egrep error /var/log/syslog)
 
## ./test

when i run the above, while it does print each line, at the very end, it prints the following error message:

i get an error at the last line that says:

Code:

: File name too long

i'm using the above method because it appears to be faster than this:

Code:

egrep error /var/log/syslog | while read line
do
        echo $line
done