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Shell script to start a local mongo instance using mongo.conf, then tail the log from that file
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gistfile1.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo "Starting mongo"
mongod --config=./mongodb.conf &
sleep 2
# tail the log named in the config file
LOG_PATH=`grep -o "^logpath=.*" mongodb.conf | cut -b 9-`
echo "Tailing" $LOG_PATH
tail -f $LOG_PATH
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