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Re: tail -f c:\file.log" | sed -n -e "/error/p" -not working


At 04:31 AM 1/5/2001, Nush Pera wrote:
>Hello!
>When I use the command:
>
>tail -f c:\file.log | sed -n -e "/error/p" 
>
>for see if exist some "error" in the last lines of log file c:\file.log 
>it doesn't work. 
>If I use 
>
>tail -10 c:\file.log | sed -n -e "/error/p" 
>
>this work but I'm interested to see if the last line it is with "error" text
>and when it is I want to execute an exe file.
>How do I do that?


tail -1 c:\file.log | sed -n -e "/error/p", no?



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