That was a typo and I have fxed it. I'm still not getting any idea abou7t how to do this, and how to break out the tail -f?
This is what I got so far:
#!/NMS/perl/ACTIVE/bin/perl -w
use warnings;
use strict;
#variables
my $currentDate = `date +%Y%m%d`;
my $logPath = "/logs";
my $logFile = "$logPath/log.$currentDate";
my $ipaddress = $ARGV[0];
my @tail = `tail -f $logFile | grep $ipaddress`;
#print "Log file: $logFile\n";
#print "IP address: $ipaddress\n";
# script begins
if (@tail) {
my @lines = $tail[0 - 2];
print @lines;
exit(0);
}
else {
print "not found";
exit(1);
}
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