[ale] SHELL: log files monitoring

[Zyman, Andy]

Hello.
Happy Valentines Day folks :)

I have simple task : I need to monitor a log files for particular string.

for this purpose I made QD script which is doing basically this:

for i in $* ; do
 tail -f | while read line
	case $line
	    <word i'm looking for>)   send email ;;
 	esac
 done &
done

so, I have from 1 to N ( where n - number of params ) background processes.

But, I have a strong feeling that it should be a better way to do this.
any ideas?

Thank You
 Andy


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