Bash - grep to function

[Kieren]

I'm trying to write a script which greps a file and sends each line it finds to a function. The following works fine:

grep REAL_TIME $file

But trying to output the results to a function (my_function) using any of the following doesn't work.

grep REAL_TIME $file >> my_function
grep REAL_TIME $file &> my_function
grep REAL_TIME $file | my_function

Any ideas?

[vsemaska]

How about this:

grep REAL_TIME $file > tmp.tmp
while read lne
    do
        my_function "$lne"
    done < tmp.tmp
rm -f tmp.tmp

[Kieren]

Perfect. Thank you