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Primsi 11-16-2006 02:15 AM
Bash: Script with tail and grep
 
I would like to make a script to check my maillog and I tried the following:

Code:
su -c 'tail -f /var/log/maillog | grep $1'
this doesn't seem to work. How can I pass the variable for grep to the script ?

Thx

blackhole54 11-16-2006 02:57 AM
Use double quotes instead of single quotes around your command.

Primsi 11-16-2006 05:30 AM
Works perfectly, thanks a lot.


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