awk : actively tail a file & email when criteria is met

[Evuraan::ഏവൂരാന്‍]

thanks for the reply,  but thats does not quite help though.

nothing happens until i send a ctrl-c, and then it says,
sh: 0: not found

the emails I recieved does not have txt that shud be the $0 of awk.

2009/4/22 Loïc Grenié <loic.grenie at gmail.com>:
> 2009/4/22 Evuraan::ഏവൂരാന്‍ <evuraan at gmail.com>:
>> Greetings..!
>>
>> this below works:
>>
>> tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | \
>> nawk '/192.168.1.100/{ print $0 }'
>>
>> and this too:
>>
>>  tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | \
>> awk ' /192.168.1.100/ { system ("mail -s \"This works\" me at email.address")}'
>>
>> but this below, does not work:
>>
>>  tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | \
>> awk ' /192.168.1.100/ {  print $0 | "mail me at email.address  "}'
>>
>> I tried nawk,gawk etc. still no go.
>
>    The line above is missing a "system()" :
>
> tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | \
> awk ' /192.168.1.100/ {  print $0 | system("mail me at email.address  "); }'
>
>    Does it solve your problem ? Otherwise, could you specify exactly
>  what is your problem ? (Command does not start, e-mail received
>  is incorrect, etc...)
>
>      Hope this helps,
>
>            Loïc
>
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