Do a tail -F until matching a pattern

Question

I want to do a tail -F on a file until matching a pattern. I found a way using awk, but IMHO my command is not really clean. The problem is that I need to d

Answer 1

Use tail's --pid option and tail will stop when the shell dies. No need to add extra to the tailed file.

sh -c 'tail -n +0 --pid=$$ -f /tmp/foo | { sed "/EOF/ q" && kill $$ ;}'