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I am monitoring a logfile using tail -f file.log|"ERROR"

I would like to write a korn script that monitors this for me and emails me if the event happens. It would be great if it attached the file to the email as well.

Any Ideas?

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#!/bin/ksh

tail -f file.log | grep "ERROR" | \
while read line
do
  echo $line | mailx -s "Error" you@office.com
done
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