#!/bin/sh # Shell script compatibility wrapper for /sbin/logread # # Copyright (C) 2019 Dirk Brenken # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # logfile="/var/log/messages" if [ ! -f "${logfile}" ] then printf "%s\n" "Error: logfile not found!" exit 2 fi usage() { printf "%s\n" "Usage: logread [options]" printf "%s\n" "Options:" printf "%5s %-10s%s\n" "-l" "" "Got only the last 'count' messages" printf "%5s %-10s%s\n" "-e" "" "Filter messages with a regexp" printf "%5s %-10s%s\n" "-f" "" "Follow log messages" printf "%5s %-10s%s\n" "-h" "" "Print this help message" } if [ -z "${1}" ] then cat "${logfile}" exit 0 else while [ "${1}" ] do case "${1}" in -l) shift count="${1//[^0-9]/}" tail -n "${count:-50}" "${logfile}" exit 0 ;; -e) shift pattern="${1}" grep -E "${pattern}" "${logfile}" exit 0 ;; -f) tail -f "${logfile}" exit 0 ;; -fe) shift pattern="${1}" tail -f "${logfile}" | grep -E "${pattern}" exit 0 ;; -h|*) usage exit 1 ;; esac shift done fi