On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 15:24 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > It's not clear to me what that should do but it produces a long list, > not in the form I need? I just want to filter [view] DST=17.*. > > less syslog.txt | grep "DST=17\." does that and solves my immediate > need. As Suvayu already pointed out, using 'less' here is a waste of time. Just run grep directly on the file, or if you want to use a pipe then get the input from 'cat'. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org