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This is a really interesting hack. I have done a similar thing by runnig minecraft in tmux, tail -f | grep for something in the log file and then sending commands back to tmux.

However, all these problems in the article can be solved with a few essential bukkit Plugins. Bukkit has been DMCA'd by one oft their own developers, probably because it became clear that Mojang (the company developing Minecraft) owns the rights over Bukkit. A popular fork of Bukkit, "Spigot" [0] has continued development and published patches until they stripped all of the contributions of the DMCA issuer. They published Spigot for Minecraft 1.8 on Friday.

[0] http://www.spigotmc.org/

Edit: typos

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  tail -f log | grep keyword | while read line; do tmux send-keys -t 1:1.0 "$line"; done

Really cool idea! But grep awaits EOF to pipe its result... (though it outputs line-by-line if result is not piped onward)

How are you getting it to work? I found a --line-buffered option for GNU grep, but I'm using busybox grep...

EDIT OK, in case anyone else wants to know, found I could solve it by putting the grep inside the while loop instead (line=`echo $line | grep keyword`), but I'd still like to hear how you did it... BTW: entering "-" causes send-keys interprets it as an option.. I pr need some data cleansing...

Maybe you can fix your '-' problem by putting '--' (like a blank option) in front of it. This tells send-keys not to interpret anything after the -- as an option.

Good idea, thanks, I know that idiom but didn't think of it. Interestingly, it's not in the tmux manpage, but I just tried it and it works. Cool!

Can't remember exactly how I did it. However I found something similar that waits for a command to complete sed instead of grep. sed exists after the first match:

    send_to_mc "/wb SomeWorld trim 100 15 C-m"
    sleep 1
    send_to_mc "/wb trim confirm"
    tail -n 0 -F "logs/latest.log" | sed "/trimmed so far (100.0% done)/q"
    send_to_mc "/broadcast Chunk deletion done"

send_to_mc is simply sending $1 + return to tmux:

    tmux send -t "$tmux_session" "$1" C-m

/wb is a command from the WorldBorder [0] command that is (in this case) used to delete all chunks (which were generated for some reason) beyond the border.

using while read line is probably the best option if you want to continuously check the logs You could also use awk isntead of grep:

    awk "/pattern/{print $0}"

0: https://github.com/Brettflan/WorldBorder

EDIT: Completely misunderstood your problem. I thought grep wouldn't output to stdout until EOF. Seems like a loop is the only option

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