First, just passing a filename as a parameter doesn't automatically open it for reading. You'll have to open it yourself. And you have to enclose any string in quotes (for Perl, ./loghttpd-05212011 is very different from "./loghttpd-05212011").
As for optimizing: don't read line-by-line, define the search regex as strict as possible (can "ERROR" occur anywhere in the line? Or at a specific position? Is there any fixed, or well defined, text leading up to it?), and if possible use the built-in grep function.
I'm using perl to do a grep of each line in a vendor file and find its occurrences in a specific directory. Any values found is saved in @dir.
.....(file opened, etc.)
....
while ($line=<FILE>){
@dir = `grep $line * `;
}
It's the specific usage of the system grep that I'm having... (7 Replies)
OK here's the situation:
I have got these lines which I have got to parse.
If the line contains a particular string and any element from a previously defined array I need to take that particular line and do some further processing.
if ((grep(/$_/,$1)) && (grep($pattern,@myarr)))
{
#Do... (2 Replies)
Hello
I want to grep a line from a file saved in some directory.
Can anyone please correct the code below:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$file = "/home/output.txt"
$grep_line = "closing zip for topic";
`grep $grep_line* $file`; (1 Reply)
Hi All i have this script that uses glob to look in /var/log/messages.*
my @messagefiles = glob "/var/log/messages.*";
and the code that uses it is this
grep { /NVRM: Xid/ } @messages)
but this spits out this
/var/log/messages-20111030:Oct 25 13:43:04 brent kernel: NVRM:... (10 Replies)
Hi,
Can anybody let me know how this grep will work.
The input and output is not known.
Also can you give me the details of any link where i can find clearly about grep
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
Hi,
i want to create perl script to telnet and print the output. :
This is the script that i have so far :
#!/usr/bin/perl
use lib '/usr/lib/perl5/5.14';
use Telnet ();
$target = "192.168.5.1";
$user = "root";
$passwd = "admin123";
print... (2 Replies)
hello Everyone i am a newbie.
i have a file which contains the following
E:\gtmproj\script\i486_nt\obj\check_geomtools.exe: o:\portsrc\spg\system_1\i486_nt\advapps\TK-2\objmt\winclockmtq.lib
E:\gtmproj\script\i486_nt\obj\check_geomtools.exe:... (12 Replies)