Re: Log File Reviewing

[Paul Heinlein <heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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!

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx <> http://www.madboa.com/
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