I want to stream my logs on my home RPi3b to a Slack channel for my vacation side project. With some searches I found an article including a simple shell script to implement this function: "Stream Any Log File to Slack Using curl".
However it's a little tricky as the script replaces " to ' as escaping mechanism. I would prefer to use more formal way to implement this, also, I haven't written Perl for a while, so I have decided to implement this function in Perl:
In this script there are some notes:
- Choosing
tail -Finstead of File::Tail is because File::Tail is quite old and no inotify implementation. On the other side, tail performs well in this section. - Choosing JSON::PP (pure perl version) is because it's built-in in Perl 5.14+, and that's also why I have added
use v5.14requirement in the beginning. - Choosing WWW::Mechanize for API calling is because there is no built-in module able to handle HTTPS connections, therefore I have decided to install a familiar one (for me).
btw, // operator has been introduced in Perl 5.10, and I didn't think it last there for such a long time...