On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach John Patton (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:33:01PM -0500): > > I couldn't get a variation of that working either... but if > > myprog is a perl script and is driven by the while(<>) loop, > > then you should be able to just pipe the output of the grep > > right into it, like so: > > > > tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep something | myprog
Why do that? perl can do regular expressions; if you're going to fire up perl firing up grep seems like a waste. > > I'm not sure if that can be done directly with a shell > > script though. > > why not, what's the difference??? > > and could someone give me a perl one-liner that takes each such line > fed into its STDIN, and for each line, calls an external shell script > with the entire line as argument? tail -f /var/log/syslog | perl -n -e '`myprog $_` if m/pattern/' Note that it's usually safer to use system rather than backticks, but as you requested this is a quick one-liner :) -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton
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