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Operating Systems HP-UX Not able to read a file. Post 302208927 by awk on Wednesday 25th of June 2008 10:07:13 AM
Old 06-25-2008
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Code:
ls -l

will show the number of characters in the file.

It is an interesting question on the lines. If you cannot read it, what difference does it make. If you can read it, use whatever it is that can read it to tell you the number of lines. That's about the best I can suggest.

Guess you can do a dump of the file and count the number of line feeds.
 

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logcheck-test

logcheck-test(1)					      General Commands Manual						  logcheck-test(1)

NAME

       logcheck-test - test new logcheck rules easily

SYNOPSIS

       logcheck-test [-q|-i] [-a|-s|-l FILE] [-e] [-P PREFIX] [-S SUFFIX] RULE
       logcheck-test [-q|-i] [-a|-s|-l FILE] -r RULEFILE

DESCRIPTION

       logcheck-test  parses  a log file for matching lines specified by a single rule or a rule file. If using a single RULE you can set a PREFIX
       and a SUFFIX to write new rules easily.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show usage information

       -a, --auth.log
	      Parse /var/log/auth.log for matching lines

       -s, --syslog
	      Parse /var/log/syslog for matching lines

       -l, --log-file FILE
	      Parse FILE for matching lines

       -i, --invert-match
	      Show line that don't match the RULE or the RULEFILE

       -q, --quiet
	      Suppress rule summary at the end of output

       -e, --surround-rule
	      Surround RULE with standard prefix and suffix:

	      ^[[:alpha:]]{3} [ :[:digit:]]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ RULE$

       -P, --append-prefix PREFIX
	      Append PREFIX to rule prefix. Option can be given multiple times

       -S, --prepend-suffix SUFFIX
	      Prepend SUFFIX to rule suffix. Option can be given multiple times

       -r, --rule-file RULEFILE
	      Use file RULEFILE for rule input

EXAMPLES

       With logcheck-test you can easily write and test new rules.

       Test a single rule against /var/log/syslog:
	      logcheck-test -s "RULE"

       Test a single rule against ~/log, surround the rule with standard prefix and suffix and append "kernel " to prefix:
	      logcheck-test -l ~/log -e -P "kernel " "RULE"

       Test the rules in rulefiles/linux/ignore.d.server/kernel against ~/log:
	      logcheck-test -l ~/log -r rulefiles/linux/ignore.d.server/kernel

       Test which lines the rules in rulefiles/linux/ignore.d.server/kernel doesn't match:
	      logcheck-test -l ~/log -r rulefiles/linux/ignore.d.server/kernel -i

EXIT STATUS

       On successful matching logcheck-test will complete with exit code 0. An exit code of 1 indicates no successful matching.

       An exit code greater then 1 indicates an error occurred. Textual errors are written to the standard error stream.

SEE ALSO

       logcheck(8)

AUTHOR

       logcheck is developed by Debian logcheck Team at alioth: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/logcheck/. This manual was written by Hannes von
       Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>.

								   Feb 19, 2010 						  logcheck-test(1)
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