December 2nd, 2008

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  • 12.02.08
    Quiet grep automated, shell | pfortuny | (0)
    Usually during an cron job, one needs to check for an expression in a log file, or in the output of a command, without generating any cumbersone new output (such as a standard grep would do): this is exactly the use of the -q option of grep. For example: for i in `grep -v '^#' /etc/passwd | cut -f1 -d:` grep $i /var/log/samba/log.smbd | grep -q 'failed to authenticate' if [ $? == 0 ] ; then mail -s 'Error in samba' $i <<EOM ...
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