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[Tommy Reynolds]

Uttered Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de>, spake thus:

> Hey! You and Douglas are right. :) 

I don't mind people saying that I'm right, as long as they don't
sound surprized ;-)

> fiddled with that I not only wanted to combine tail -f with grep but to
> let this run unattended and let the output redirect into a separate log
> file. Something like:
> 
> tail -f $LOGFILE | grep "$EXPRESSION" >> $GREPPED.LOGFILE
> 
> This does not work. Or do you know a solution for that? I know there are
> tools available for this task, to react on defined log events.

How do you mean "doesn't work"?  There's nothing broken here; that
command line should be fine.

Hmmm... what shell do you use?
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