Need to monitor a log file for a particular string "Server running at http". Once that string is found in the log file , I need to stop checking and want to continue to rest of the code.
currently I am currently using "tail -f my-file.log | grep -q "Server running at http" . But this doesn't seem to work.tail command is still running.
tail -f my-file.log | grep -q "Server running at http"
You can try something like :
tail -f my-file.log | awk '/Server running at http/ { print | bash file_with_code}'
P.S. instead of a different file it can be a function within the same script, needless to say that in such a case you will not need to say bash before function
Another possible solution can be:
tail -f my-file.log | egrep -m 1 "Server running at http";echo "found the pattern"
You have to specify, how many matches you need. As you need first hit
tail -f server.log | grep -m 1 "mystring"
once "mystring" found for the first hit, program will exit automatically.