[plug] tail -f

[Russell Steicke]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:53:16AM +0930, Onno Benschop wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm trying to come up with a way that I can watch the tail of a log file 
> until a certain string occurs, then I want to stop watching. (The 
> functionality is to prod fetchmail and watch until the sleeping message 
> comes past.)
> 
> Anyone got any bright ideas?

awk

tail -F file | awk '{print;} /string/{exit;}'


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