[TriLUG] remedial bash scripting question

[Chris Bullock]

I have a very basic bash scripting question.
I have a log file that I am trying to parse and if the results are positive I 
want an email sent to me.  Then I will put it in a cron tab to run every 15 
minutes.
basically.  I need this to be a bash script, no perl or awk.

# look for the string
tail -n 1000 /var/log/messages | grep -i mismatch

If there are results kick out an email 

tia
cgb