in reply to extract the tail from a string (with new lines) containing a substring

Maybe just leave this running

tail -F file-B | grep --line-buffered -A 3 -B 3 xxx >>file-A

and just look at file-A every 20 minutes...

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Re^2: extract the tail from a string (with new lines) containing a substring
by jjmoka (Beadle) on Jan 22, 2020 at 22:56 UTC
    When simple is beauty. Thanks.