How can I kill a process when a specific string is seen on standard error?

Question

I need to start a process, lets say foo. I would like to see the stdout/stderr as normal, but grep the stderr for string bar. Once

Answer 1

Just as an alternative to the other answer, one way would be to use bash's coproc facility:

{coproc FOO { foo; } 2>&1 1>&3; } 3>&1
CHILD=$!
while read line <&${FOO[0]}; do
    if echo "$line" | grep -q bar; then
        kill $CHILD
    else
        echo "$line"
    fi
done

That's clearly bash-specific, though.