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How do I make 'tail -f' beep?

Hi,

I'm moniroting numerous logs in my new job (tail -f JOE.log | grep ALERT) and I want to be able to make the Terminal BEEP when ever something comes up.

Is this something I can do easily?

Any help with the above (or an alternative) would be appreciated, so I can stop staring at the screen all day

THANKS!

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You have follow turned on for tail, I dunno if this will work for you but

Code:

beep="\007"
tail mfile.log | grep  ALERT
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
   echo "$beep"
   tail mfile.log | grep ALERT
if

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