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#SOLVED# I am accepting Ciclamino's answer, as it got me to where I needed to be. Here's what I ended up doing:

I created and added execute bit to shell script /opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify-kern.sh containing

#!/bin/bash
cd `dirname $0`
stringA=$1
stringB=${stringA#\[*\]}
stringC=${stringB:0:36}
stringD=${stringB:36}
./notify.sh "$stringC" "$stringD"

Then I appended to /etc/rsyslog.conf

## output kernel messages to OLED
$template OLEDformat,"%msg%"
kern.*  ^/opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify-kern.sh;OLEDformat

Finally, I restarted rsyslog with sudo service rsyslog restart.

#SOLVED# I am accepting Ciclamino's answer, as it got me to where I needed to be. Here's what I ended up doing:

I created and added execute bit to shell script /opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify-kern.sh containing

#!/bin/bash
cd `dirname $0`
stringA=$1
stringB=${stringA#\[*\]}
stringC=${stringB:0:36}
stringD=${stringB:36}
./notify.sh "$stringC" "$stringD"

Then I appended to /etc/rsyslog.conf

## output kernel messages to OLED
$template OLEDformat,"%msg%"
kern.*  ^/opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify-kern.sh;OLEDformat

Finally, I restarted rsyslog with sudo service rsyslog restart.

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Edit

As Ciclamino suggested, I added the following line to my /etc/rsyslog.conf file:

kern.*  ^/opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify.sh

This almost worked, but the formatting resulted in the OLED just showing the date, hostname, and the word 'kernel' before running out of room. After a little digging, I figured out the following:

$template OLEDformat,"%msg%0
kern.*  ^/opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify.sh;OLEDformat

This is almost there, but again, I run out of room because of some sort of timestamp.. example display:

[ 4477.993774] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] At

I want to get rid of the bracketed numbers so I'm left with

sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI rem

Still not perfect but the best I'll get with the size of the screen. It would be even better if it would split it at 36 characters so I can have something like the following:

sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI rem
ovable disk

Edit

As Ciclamino suggested, I added the following line to my /etc/rsyslog.conf file:

kern.*  ^/opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify.sh

This almost worked, but the formatting resulted in the OLED just showing the date, hostname, and the word 'kernel' before running out of room. After a little digging, I figured out the following:

$template OLEDformat,"%msg%0
kern.*  ^/opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify.sh;OLEDformat

This is almost there, but again, I run out of room because of some sort of timestamp.. example display:

[ 4477.993774] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] At

I want to get rid of the bracketed numbers so I'm left with

sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI rem

Still not perfect but the best I'll get with the size of the screen. It would be even better if it would split it at 36 characters so I can have something like the following:

sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI rem
ovable disk
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Pipe kernel messages to another process as they occur

I have an OLED screen on my laptop that I have configured to show status information. The current driver I have installed in Linux for it is able to display messages by sending them to a script as an argument separated by spaces.

Example: the command /opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify.sh Hi Everybody "Hello World" displays on the oled screen:

Hi
Everybody
Hello World

If another message is sent before the old ones disappear and it reverts to status info, it pushes off the top message. Example: less than 30 seconds after the previous example, /opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify.sh "Bananas have potassium" is executed:

Everybody
Hello World
Bananas have potassium

What I want to do is have kernel messages (the kind you see by running dmesg) forwarded to this script. For example, when I insert a USB drive, the following information would show on the OLED screen as they're logged:

[ 1283.200150] usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[ 1283.353322] scsi9 : usb-storage 2-4:1.0
[ 1284.351366] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Cruzer           1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 1284.352697] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[ 1284.355669] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] 31266816 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB)
[ 1284.357032] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[ 1284.357041] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 1284.357047] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1284.364356] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1284.364371]  sdd: sdd1
[ 1284.371656] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1284.371666] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk

Note that given the limited width of the screen, stripping the timestamps would also be useful. So at the end of the logging, the screen would show for about 30 seconds:

  sdd: sdd1
 sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk

So, to clarify, I want kernel messages to be sent live by executing /opt/asusg50oled/utils/notify.sh "$MESSAGE"

I can throw in filters to weed out anything I don't want to see later, I just want to know how to do the parts mentioned above. How can I do this?