Minecraft chat logger

Hi /prog/,

I have a problem with a Bash script.
I tried to write a little script to create a chat only log for minecraft.
The script is here:
http://pastebin.com/6TVkgvsc

However, when I test it, this is written to chat.log:

21:02:17 <tim> blah
21:03:49 <tim> hi
21:06:13 <tim> test
21:06:13 <tim> test
<tim> test
<tim> dayum
21:07:52 <tim> dayum
21:07:52 <tim> dayum
21:10:08 <tim> talk
21:10:08 <tim> talk
21:10:08 <tim> talk
<tim> talk

I said all those things only once.

I have no fucking idea why this happens.
For each message, the output of the script is just once "not the same; updating", it's not like Minecraft was just nog finished with logging.

Could someone help me out here?

just don't print shit with the same time and message

>>2
What do you mean?

>>3
the problem is that it is printing the same thing too many times, just make it stop doing that by checking if it is already written

if not line in lines
  print line
  append(lines,line)

>>4
yeah, but why would it do that?
I only write it once.

>>6
You really are a faggot and you should get the fuck out of {spoiler /prog/} because if it sucks it's because of people like you, but I'm going to help you:

last=""
while get the next line, put it in $line; do
  if [[ $line == $last ]]; then
    # it's the same as the last line, don't print
  else
    last="$line"
    print $line
  fi
done
# repeat

>>7
/prog/

More like autismcraft

Here's an idea:


tail -f $logfile |
while read line
do
    # line test & logging code
done

Better yet, use awk and grep to test the line and do the whole thing on a single line, then write an alias for it and stick it in your .bashrc file. Filtering logs in bash almost never needs more than tail -f ... | awk ... | grep ... >> ..., with maybe sed or tee in there too if you swing that way.

<-- check em dubz