In one terminal, run: $ mkfifo myfifo $ while true; do sed -rune 's/^Dev server started on port (.*)/\1/p' myfifo | xargs -n1 -I{} echo "Execute other comm

In one terminal, run: $ mkfifo myfifo $ while true; do sed -rune 's/^Dev server started on port (.*)/\1/p' myfifo | xargs -n1 -I{} echo "Execute other command here with argument {}"; done In the other terminal, run your server and tee the output to the fifo you just created: $ start_server | tee myfifo