lumue/kodi-syslog-tail.sh

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tail kodi.log (or any other logfile) to syslog

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kodi-syslog-tail.sh

	#!/bin/bash
	tail -f /home/osmc/.kodi/temp/kodi.log \|
	while read -r line
	do
	logger $line
	done

efelon commented Mar 11, 2021

In the meantime I switched to this solution after reading that read is not recommended in this context and pure "pipe" is performing better.

tail -n0 -F /home/kodi/.kodi/temp/kodi.log | stdbuf -o0 cut -c37- | logger -t KODI

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