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I'd like to tail -f the output of access_log on RHEL 6.8 but pipe and grep that output to act as a filter. Is there such an option?

That is I'd like live output from:

# tail -f error_log | grep <<ON.THIS.IP.ADDY>>

Currently I'm doing something akin to this, but it's clunky:

watch -n 5 'tail -n 10 access_log | grep <<ON.THIS.IP.ADDY>>'
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  • Clunky? What's wrong with the first command?
    – Ryan Babchishin
    Jul 14, 2016 at 17:43
  • The terminal would appear to 'hang' after the first command. The accepted answer below was all I needed. Adding --line-buffered solved all problems.
    – Rick
    Jul 14, 2016 at 18:59

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I just did a tail -f <nginx-access.log> | grep <ip> and as expected new lines showed up regularly.

What happens when you try? Could it be hat your grep buffers (I think i've seen that), in that case it might help to add --line-buffered to the grep.

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