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Log output from a cronjob to a file, but also e-mail if a string is found

Terminal - Log output from a cronjob to a file, but also e-mail if a string is found
some_cronjobed_script.sh 2>&1 | tee -a output.log | grep -C 1000 ERROR
2009-03-06 17:51:13
User: DEinspanjer
Functions: grep tee
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Log output from a cronjob to a file, but also e-mail if a string is found

The large context number (-C 1000) is a bit of a hack, but in most of my use cases, it makes sure I'll see the whole log output.

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I thought you wanted to mail it? What if the log is greater than 1000 lines? What's ERROR?

some_cronjobed_script.sh 2>&1 | tee -a output.log | mail -s "some subject" some.address@example.com
Comment by atoponce 219 weeks and 5 days ago

Cron can be configured to automatically e-mail the STDOUT results of any commands run to $MAILTO.

This can be great, but sometimes, you only want to get an e-mail if something went wrong. That is what this script does. It logs the output to a file for archive purposes, but if the string "ERROR" is found in the output, the output goes to STDOUT as well which means cron will e-mail it.

I suppose you could use a subshell or called script that logged the output to the file then grepped the file and catted it if the grep returned true, but this was a oneliner and that was convenient for me.

Comment by DEinspanjer 214 weeks and 4 days ago

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