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Asked: 2026-05-20T16:15:03+00:00

I am trying to pass the matching line of a awk search command to

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I am trying to pass the matching line of a awk search command to some other program. I am doing something like

tail -f file | awk 'tolower($0) ~ /debug|.*nfo/ {system("java -jar abc.jar $0")}'

But am unable to pass the matching line to the external program.

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  1. Editorial Team

    IMO "java -jar abc.jar $0" is a problem here; you have to concat this string:

    tail -f file | awk 'tolower($0) ~ /debug|.*nfo/ {system("java -jar abc.jar " $0)}'
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