Read file for phrases

[asmpic]

Does anyone know how I can go about reading a file and for example seeing if it contains the phrase "ERROR"? and if it does contain it send an email showing the line?

[daark.child]

Using what programming language? If shell programming some commands that come to mind are grep and mail.

[asmpic]

Using what programming language? If shell programming some commands that come to mind are grep and mail.

oh, sorry, shell scripting.

Something as simple as this would work right?

cat file.txt | grep "ERROR"

Now how do I get it to send the name of the file and the line that contains "ERROR..." in an email?

[asmpic]

Ok, so I figured out how to write this.

#!/bin/sh

FILE="file.txt"
PHRASE="ERROR"

message=$(cat $FILE | grep $PHRASE)

echo "Message" | mail -s "Found $FILE containing $PHRASE" someone@someone.com

I want to make this more efficient so I was thinking I could have one file that contains all the files I want to read along with the phrase I want to search for.
So for example

mainfile.log

file1.log    ERROR1
file2.log    ERROR2
file3.log    ERROR3

So I want the code to read this file and then go through each file listed inside looking for the phrases.