log parsing script. Only interesting in that it's a good example of using lock files to make sure there is never more than one copy of a script running on cron

logGen.sh

#!/bin/bash
######################################################
# Program:      logGen.sh
# Date Created: 22 Aug 2012
# Description:  parses the manager log in real time into daily error files
# Date Updated: 27 Nov 2013
#		|_moved all data parsing logic to awk instead of shell
#		|_Need to analyze memory/CPU usage and consider changing
#		|_restart frequency in cron
# Developer:    Darrell DeCosta (Senior Support Engineer)
######################################################
#Prefix for pid file
pidPrefix="logGen"
#output direcory
outDir="/opt/company.TV/logs/allerrors/"
#Simple function to see if running on primary
checkPrime ()
{
  if /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0|/bin/grep -wq inet;then isPrime=1;else isPrime=0;fi
}


#function to kill previous instances of this script
killScript ()
{
  /usr/bin/find /var/run -name "${pidPrefix}.*.pid" |while read pidFile;do
    if [[  "${pidFile}" != "/var/run/${pidPrefix}.${$}.pid" ]];then
      /bin/kill -- -$(/bin/cat ${pidFile})
      /bin/rm ${pidFile}
    fi
  done
}


#Check to see if primary
#If so, kill any previous instance and start log parsing
#If not, just kill leftover running processes

checkPrime
if [[ "${isPrime}" -eq 1 ]];then
  echo "$$" > /var/run/${pidPrefix}.$$.pid
  killScript
  tail -F -n0 /opt/company.TV/logs/manager_proxy.log|awk -v dir=$outDir '{OFS="|"}
{
  if ($3 == "E")
  {
    file="allerrors."$1".log"
    gsub("/",".",file)
    if ($9 ~ /@/)
      print $1,$2,$8,$9,substr($0, index($0,$10)) >> dir file
    else {if ($8 !~ /@/)
      print $1,$2,$7,"NULL",substr($0, index($0,$8)) >> dir file
    }
    fflush(stdout);
  }
}'
else
  killScript
  exit 0
fi