tail / grep

[Ben Beeson]

Mike,

	I have just  checked the LUAU list for the first time in several days.
I have modded my profiles so that I have to force an overwrite, so my answer
may be different than yours.  I have a few crontabs that parse log files in a
similar fashion and then send the results in e-mail.  Perhaps this thought may
help. Try placing "2>&1" in your commmand line.  This sends both standard out
and standard error down the pipe. 

Good luck,

Ben 

   

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> Here's a good one:
> 
> tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log | grep -f /etc/Sex.txt > /tmp/busted.txt
> 
> The tail part of the command runs, the grep runs (-f read from file) but I can
> not get it to output to the /tmp/bustex.txt file to save my life and I can't
> figure out why.  Without using the redirection at the end the results of the
> grep are displayed on the crt no problem.
> 
> What I'm thinking is that the grep -f puts the command in a loop and it never
> gets to the > redirect portion, you think?
> 
> 
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