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warhansen
warhansen

Reputation: 736

echo text and tail log to pipe to email

I want to echo text as well as tail the last part of a log to pipe it to email. I can easily do one or the other, but how do I do both without first writing everything to a file and then emailing that? I basically want to combine the below two commands into one to only send out one email.

echo "There is an error in the log, see the below for detail" | mail -s "error in the log" [email protected]

and

tail -n 10 /var/log/error.log | mail -s "error in the log" [email protected]

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1448

Answers (1)

James
James

Reputation: 46

You could use the concatenate command along with process substitution:

cat <(echo "There is an error in the log, see the below for detail") <(tail -n 10 /var/log/error.log) | mail -s "error in the log" [email protected]

Upvotes: 1

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