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  • Writer's pictureCybersecurity Ops with bash
    • Apr 1, 2019
    • 1 min read

Cybersecurity Ops with bash - Chapter 8 Solutions

Below are selected solutions for the Chapter 8 workshop questions from Cybersecurity Ops with bash.


Question 4


Modify wintail.sh to allow the user to specify the Windows log to be monitored by passing in a command-line argument.


Answer


The first line of code in wintail.sh identifies the Application log as the one that will be monitored.


The first line can be replace with the following:


This will use the value of the first argument passed to the script as the log to monitor. If no argument is provided it will default to Application.

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