How to detect the physical connected state of a network cable/connector?

Question

In a Linux environment, I need to detect the physical connected or disconnected state of an RJ45 connector to its socket. Preferably using BASH scripting only.

The

Answer 1

tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep -E 'link (up|down)'

or for me faster gets:

tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep 'link \(up\|down\)'

It will listen to the syslog file.

Result (if disconnect and after 4 seconds connect again):

Jan 31 13:21:09 user kernel: [19343.897157] r8169 0000:06:00.0 enp6s0: link down
Jan 31 13:21:13 user kernel: [19347.143506] r8169 0000:06:00.0 enp6s0: link up