Syncs new lines in a remote log file to a local file then outputs it through tailable

remote2tailable

#!/bin/bash

# Syncs new lines in a remote log file to a local file.
# Downloads remote file, and prints all lines that are
# not yet printed

source=$1

# Find the name for the locally copied file
hash=`echo "$source" | md5sum | cut -d " " -f 1`
mkdir -p ~/.tailable/temp/local-mirror
local_copy="$(readlink -f ~/.tailable/temp)/$hash"

# Copy remote file
timeout 3 scp "$source" "$local_copy" 1>/dev/null
error_code=$?
if [ "$error_code" -ne "0" ]; then 
    echo "`date` Failed to download file from '$source'" 1>&2
    exit $error_code
fi

./tailable -f "$local_copy"