What about:
perl -ne 'if (/^\s*word/) { print $_; }' logfile
any others?
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Joseph L. Casale
<JCasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
> I need to review a logfile with Sed and cut out all the lines that start with a certain word, problem
> is this word begins after some amount of whitespace and unless I search for whitespace at the
> beginning followed by "word" I may encounter "word" somewhere legitimately hence why
> I don't just search for "word" only...
>
> Anyone know how to make sed accomplish this?
>
> Thanks!
> jlc
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Thx
Joshua Gimer