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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Locating and Extracting Specific Patterns from a file Post 302518258 by kokoras on Friday 29th of April 2011 08:46:14 AM
Old 04-29-2011
Locating and Extracting Specific Patterns from a file
Hi Zaxxon.

Thank you very much for your assitstance.

The sed part worked fine, it cathced the requested type strings exactly, from a given file.
The
Code:
 tail -f <reportFile> | sed ......      >>  <outputFile>

didn' produce any output though
Also is it possible to provide some logic in constructing the regular expression in the sed part? It seems quite magical for me!

Thank you again.

---------- Post updated at 03:46 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:45 AM ----------

I found the problem about no writing to output file. The file had to be preexisting...
 

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