Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi !

I am a newbie and never officially wrote a shell script before.

The requirement for this script is :

1) Read a file called 'bpm.log' and identify if it has a specific text such as 'this is the text'. Its a static value and that is the only text we need to read.

2) If that file has that text, then an email notification must be sent to a specific email address.

Please give me any pointers on this. Any basic help also would be highly appreciated.

We are on AIX 5.3

Thanks!

Code:

 
#!/usr/bin/ksh
 
while [ 1 ]
do
 sleep 60
 if ( grep -q 'this is the text' bpm.log )
 then
   date|mailx -s it-in-there you@your_email_host 
   exit
 fi
done
 
or more terse and low cost:
 
if ( tail -f bpm.log | grep -q 'this is the text' )
then
  date|mailx -s it-in-there you@your_email_host 
fi

This should do the job ...

Thanks so much ..

have a great weekend!