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Old 11-27-2007
andyblaylock andyblaylock is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99 View Post
Assuming that a sample log file record is one on ONE line...
one way:

Code:
sed 's/.*dst_port=\([^ ][^ ]*\).*/\1/' myLogFile

P.S. Pls use vB Codes when quoting sample data/source - no line wraps either.
The above code sed 's/.*dst_port=\([^ ][^ ]*\).*/\1/' myLogFile
, is this the sed command being used with regular expression syntax?
If so what does the s do, I know that / means search
Andy