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    slack-logger

A script used to tail a logfile and post newlines to a slack webhook. Original script taken from this Postman Blog.
In practice, I expect that it will be modified slightly (it'd be nice to know the name of the file it's tailing).
Usage

Download or copy the slack-logger.sh file.
Make the shell script executable using:
chmod +x slack-logger.sh
Run the shell script, passing in the name of the file you wish to tail and the Slack webhook URL.
./slack-logger.sh nginx.log https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Bonus

Additionally, you can make it so that the script only posts lines with a specific keyword in it by passing a 3rd argument:
./slack-logger.sh nginx.log https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX err

  
## slack-tail.sh
#!/bin/bash

tail -n0 -F "$1" | while read LINE; do
  (echo "$LINE" | grep -e "$3") && curl -X POST --silent --data-urlencode \
    "payload={\"text\": \"$(echo $LINE | sed "s/\"/'/g")\"}" "$2";
done
	#!/bin/bash

	tail -n0 -F "$1" \| while read LINE; do
	(echo "$LINE" \| grep -e "$3") && curl -X POST --silent --data-urlencode \
	"payload={\"text\": \"$(echo $LINE \| sed "s/\"/'/g")\"}" "$2";
	done