If you don't see any one posting comments on you thread is a pretty good indication that the inquire is not clear. You might need to give more information or formulate you query differently.
As it happens, I am not quite sure what you mean. $logfile will keep logging until you stop the mechanism that records the log entries, and this is independent of displaying its content with tail and piping it to a while read loop. It is also independent of that loop.
Thus, this statement of yours is not clear:
Quote:
I would like to end the script right away and not wait a new line to be added to the monitored logfile.
Even if the script stops the mechanism that logs will keep going.
Now, if you want to stop the script right when it encounters a given string, you must read it first, identify it as a show stopper, and exist the script. Therefore, it must be done, before any of the other do ...some stuff.
But, please, expand further, since I'm quite sure this will not satisfy your query.
Last edited by Aia; 11-15-2014 at 02:12 AM..
Reason: Grammar correction
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