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

ready to use for tomcat =

sh -c 'tail -f --pid=$$ catalina.out | { grep -i -m 1 "Server startup in" && kill $$ ;}'

for above scenario :

sh -c 'tail -f   --pid=$$ /tmp/foo | { grep -i -m 1 EOF && kill $$ ;}'