[CentOS] Log File Reviewing
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Mon Jan 5 20:16:24 UTC 2009
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> The regex you want is "^[[:space:]]*word"
>
> Wow, thanks everyone for the help! How does one modify this to also
> knock out lines that *must* have whitespace followed by a number
> [0-9]? I can do it using "^[[:space:]]*[0-9]" but it also takes out
> lines w/o whitespace that begin with numbers?
Probably something like "^[[:space:]]\+[0-9]"
-- though that assumes you're using gawk (since the \+ modifier is
GNU-specific).
For non-GNU awks, "^[[:space:]][[:space:]]*[0-9]"
> I have to buy a book on RegEx's and Sed :)
Good idea!
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