tail-slack

tail-slack.sh

#!/bin/bash

# tail-slack.sh
# author(s): khuynh
# description: this script tails log files and posts them to a slack channel
# when a new line is appended to the file. It is a modified version of:
# https://blog.getpostman.com/2015/12/23/stream-any-log-file-to-slack-using-curl/
#
# usage:
# $1 - SLACK_URI
# ${@:2} = file paths to logfiles

URI=$1
echo "$URI"
echo "${@:2}"

tail -n0 -F -q "${@:2}" | while read LINE; do
    echo "$LINE" && curl -X POST --silent --data-urlencode \
        "payload={\"text\": \"$(echo $LINE | sed "s/\"/'/g")\"}" "$URI";
done