On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:16:58PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > 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 :) <cough> that'll work too.. i didn't see your post :) -- Adam McDaniel Infrastructure Technology Consultant M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.