catail.sh :: cat files found in a tails search....

.aliase.catail.sh

# thanks to some help
# https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/442672/how-to-continuously-tail-a-log-find-all-files-sed-and-display-cat-the-foun
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/26884607/372215


# catail \"/var/log/httpd/modsec_audit.log\" 's/[^\/]*/\./;s/].*$//g'
# parameter 1 is the file(s) to log
# parameter 2 is the sed regular expression (regex) to search for files within the tailed log
# notice the example modsec_audit, this will log file in the audit.log that it wroe if you are logging output in Concurrent mode.
catail() (
        if [[ -z "$1" || -z "$2" ]]; then
                echo "catail \"/var/log/httpd/modsec_audit.log\" 's/[^\/]*/\./;s/].*$//g'"
                return
        fi
        tail -f "$1" | while read line; do
                        echo "$line" | sed "$2" | awk '{print $0}' | xargs -n1 cat
        done
)

# source catail
# catail \"/var/log/httpd/modsec_audit.log\" 's/[^\/]*/\./;s/].*$//g'