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November 19, 2010 15:55
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Sends an email to an address when a log is written to
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| tail -0f test.log | ruby -ne 'open("|mailx -s Log [email protected]", "w", &:print)' |
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I'll post an explanation of what this is doing shortly. It may look simple, but there are actually a few subtle things going on here that are not immediately clear.