also sprach John Patton (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:33:01PM -0500):
> I couldn't get a variation of that working either... but if
> myprog is a perl script and is driven by the while(<>) loop,
> then you should be able to just pipe the output of the grep
> right into it, like so:
>
> tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep something | myprog
>
> I'm not sure if that can be done directly with a shell
> script though.
why not, what's the difference???
and could someone give me a perl one-liner that takes each such line
fed into its STDIN, and for each line, calls an external shell script
with the entire line as argument?
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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