Re: Feed facility/priority to logger(1) via stdin - desirable extension or bad idea?

[Mr Roooster <mrrooster%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 at 14:19, Matthias Petermann <mp%petermann-it.de@localhost> wrote:
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> - Can what I have in mind already be solved (differently or more
> elegantly) with existing tools from the base system?
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It's not elegent, but depending on your shell you can abuse tee to do
something like:

$ echo -e "alert|alert thing\ninfo|less important\n" |
 tee >(grep "^info|" | cut -c6- | logger -puser.notice) |
 grep "^alert|" | cut -c7- | logger -plocal0.notice

cheers,

Ian