Tips tagged tail


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Tip #290   Crawl a web page for links

lynx -dump http://www.spantz.org | grep -A999 "^References$" | tail -n +3 | awk '{print $2 }' Read more »

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Tip #220   Actively Monitor a File

This is a way to monitor "/var/log/messages" or any file for certain changes.
The example below actively monitors "stuff" for the word "now" and as soon as "now" is added to the file, the contents of msg are sent by email

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Tip #90   Strip header

Strip the header line from a file:

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