mailing the last 50 lines of syslog file

[NDO]

Hi!

I have in my crontab a script that which is:

#!/bin/sh
egrep -i 'unhealthy|lost|failed|timed|error|warn' /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log | mailx -s "syslog issues" xxx@xxx.com

But it is sending all lines with those words.

How can I send just the last 50 lines of the syslog?

FR

[Artur-M · Accepted solution]

egrep .... | tail -n 50 | mailx ...

?

[NDO]

Thanks a lot

fr