Doesn’t sh support process substitution

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The syntax <(...) is only supported by BASH.

For any POSIX shell, use this approach:

sh -c 'tail -n 1000 -F catalina.out | if grep -qP --line-buffered ".+" ; then ...'

i.e. move the stdin redirection in front of the if with a pipe. The if will pass stdin on to the grep.

if tail ...| grep won’t work since the if won’t be able to see it’s then/fi because the pipe separates processes.

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