I need a script that will run a series of tail -f
commands and output them into a file. What I need is for tail -f
to run for a certain amount of time to grep specific words. The reason it's a certain amount of time is because some of these values don't show up right away as this is a live log.
How can I run something like this for let's say 20 seconds, output the grep command and then continue on to the next command?
tail -f /example/logs/auditlog | grep test
Thanks
timeout 20 tail -f /example/logs/auditlog | grep test
tail -f /example/logs/auditlog | grep test &
pid=$!
sleep 20
kill $pid
What about this:
for (( N=0; $N < 20 ; N++)) ; do tail -f /example/logs/auditlog | grep test ; sleep 1 ; done
EDIT: I misread your question, sorry. You want something like this:
tail -f /example/logs/auditlog | grep test
sleep 20
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