[TriLUG] remedial bash scripting question

[Robert Dale]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Chris Bullock <cgbullock at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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 && mail
me at there.com -s "found the string"



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Robert Dale