Re: OT: tail -f | while read

[Ilya Martynov <m_ilya@agava.com>]

MFK> hi,
MFK> why does the following not work:

MFK>   tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep something | while read i; do myprog $i; done

Untested:

tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep something | (while read i; do myprog $i; done)

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