Simple shell script to monitor a log file (e.g. TYPO3 syslog) and push it to a slack channel

log2slack

#!/bin/sh

tail -n 1 -f /var/path/to/file.log | while read line; do 
	echo $line | grep -v "PATTERN TO IGNORE"
	if `test $? -eq 0`; then 
		cleanLine=`echo $line | tr -d '"'`
		payload="payload={\"channel\": \"#channel\", \"username\": \"dev:typo3-sys.log\", \"text\": \"$cleanLine\", \"icon_emoji\": \":interrobang:\"}"
		curl -X POST --data-urlencode "$payload" https://TEAM.slack.com/services/hooks/incoming-webhook\?token\=TOKEN
	fi
done