It sounds like you're working with a daemon's log file and if so you'll need to be careful. If you overlay the open log file, you'll stop seeing updates to the file as you will have unlinked the open file from the directory and replaced it with a static file that you marked up with hash (#) signs.
I think you have two choices:
1) use tail -f to read the log file and pipe the output through grep or awk to do what you need. This is probably easiest.
2) if your log file has timestamps then you can run your search periodically. With each run save the last time stamp in the log file, tuck it away in a /tmp file or something, and only process messages in the log that have a timestamp greater than the last one saved.
Hi ,
I am trying a script which takes user input userid . I am stuck how to check whether that is a valid user id or not in the audit log files. My code is :
cd $CCP_AUDIT
cat * > /export/home/$USR/l***/files
echo "UserId:\c"
read UserId
#Date Function
echo "DATE : \c"
read xxx
I... (7 Replies)
I have a huge file and want to separate it into several subsets.
The file looks like:
C1 C2 C3 C4 ... (variable names)
1 ....
2 ....
3 ....
:
22 ....
23 ....
I want to separate the huge file using the column 1, which has numbers from 1 to 23 (but there are different amount of... (8 Replies)
I have a key file
$ cat klist
5 N:8855 CASA VERDE ROAD :32827 :ORLAND
5 N:585 MOLLY LANE :30189 :WOODST
5 N:320 NINA ROAD :32304 :TALLAH
and a data file, see example of the line below:
N:RT 15 & N 7TH STREET :17837 :U SAVE
I need to search by key (2nd field) from klist... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I have the below script to get input but i cannot get grep to work.
input1.txt
AAAAAAAAG
input2.txt
>gi|184009.1| LEAFY-like |AAAAAAAAGSGGGDHLPY
However, when i use grep -f input1.txt input2.txt
i cannot get any output matches (note that the match is underlined).
Is it... (8 Replies)
So this is what I'm trying to do:
I have a file called registry.txt which has a list of registry entries I want to search for.
I have another file called inctrl.txt on which I want to perform the search on.
Here's the example contents of registry.txt
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security... (3 Replies)
Hello everybody,
I have been searching it, but it seems I am unable to find the correct information, that s why I am asking you guys, hoping somebody get an idea.
Here is my problem :
I want a script to loop until a string is identified in a log file.
Here is the script :
#!/bin/sh... (5 Replies)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
I need to search through the users home directories for keywords, display them. The code listed below will show... (7 Replies)
Hello -
I am running a script that is outputting to a log. Let call it output.log
I would like to monitor that log until the line "Build Successful" is found.
I think I would need to use the grep command.
How would I do that in a loop?
Thanks
Marty (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have built the following script to check if processes supplied by the argument are running or not.
#!/bin/bash
PROCLIST=$1
PROCESS="0"
ERROR_PROCS=""
IFS='+'
read -ra ADDR <<< "$PROCLIST"
for PROC in "${ADDR}"; do
if ; then
PROCESS=1
... (9 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep - search a file for lines containing a given pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [-elnsv] pattern [file] ...
OPTIONS -e-e pattern is the same as pattern
-c Print a count of lines matched
-i Ignore case
-l Print file names, no lines
-n Print line numbers
-s Status only, no printed output
-v Select lines that do not match
EXAMPLES
grep mouse file # Find lines in file containing mouse
grep [0-9] file # Print lines containing a digit
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches one or more files (by default, stdin) and selects out all the lines that match the pattern. All the regular expressions
accepted by ed and mined are allowed. In addition, + can be used instead of * to mean 1 or more occurrences, ? can be used to mean 0 or 1
occurrences, and | can be used between two regular expressions to mean either one of them. Parentheses can be used for grouping. If a
match is found, exit status 0 is returned. If no match is found, exit status 1 is returned. If an error is detected, exit status 2 is
returned.
SEE ALSO cgrep(1), fgrep(1), sed(1), awk(9).
GREP(1)