awk question (actively tail a file & notify when expression is found)

[Bill Campbell]

You might want to look at ``swatch'' which is designed to do
this, and monitors multiple log files simultaneously.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009, Evuraan::????????????????????????  wrote:
>Greetings..!
>
>this 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  "}'
>
>Any pointers would be much appreciated.
>
>Thx.
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