pipe tail output into another script

Question

I am trying to pipe the output of a tail command into another bash script to process:

tail -n +1 -f your_log_file | myscript.sh

However, when I

Answer 1

Perhaps your were confused with awk?

tail -n +1 -f your_log_file | awk '{
    print $1
}'

would print the first column from the output of the tail command.

In the shell, a similar effect can be achieved with:

tail -n +1 -f your_log_file | while read first junk; do
    echo "$first"
done

Alternatively, you could put the whole while ... done loop inside myscript.sh