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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Searching for a pattern between 2 semicolons Post 302548344 by gopikrish81 on Thursday 18th of August 2011 07:37:42 AM
Old 08-18-2011
Searching for a pattern between 2 semicolons

I have logs which is having strings like below,
Code:
errorMsg;;
errorMsg;bad input;

so I need to grep from logs file which searches for errorMsg followed by semicolon followed by any text and then ending again with semicolon.

More importantly, I should not get errorMsg and having nothing inside the 2 semicolons. I should get results having something between the 2 semicolons. Please help me with the grep or any other for searching this.

Thanks in advance.

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Mod Comment Please use [code] and [/code] tags when posting code, data or logs etc. to preserve formatting and enhance readability, thanks.

Last edited by zaxxon; 08-18-2011 at 09:01 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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GETBUILDLOG(1)						      General Commands Manual						    GETBUILDLOG(1)

NAME
getbuildlog - download build logs from Debian auto-builders SYNOPSIS
getbuildlog package [version-pattern] [architecture-pattern] DESCRIPTION
getbuildlog downloads build logs of package from Debian auto-builders. It downloads build logs of all versions and for all architectures if version-pattern and architecture-pattern are not specified or empty, otherwise only build logs whose versions match version-pattern and build logs whose architectures match architecture-pattern will be downloaded. The version and architecture patterns are interpreted as extended regular expressions as described in grep(1). If version-pattern is "last" then only the logs for the most recent version of package found on buildd.debian.org will be downloaded. If version-pattern is "last-all" then the logs for the most recent version found on each build log index will be downloaded. OPTIONS
-h, --help Show usage information and examples. -V, --version Show version and copyright information. EXAMPLES
getbuildlog hello 2.2-1 amd64 Download amd64 build log for hello version 2.2-1. getbuildlog glibc "" mips.* Download mips(el) build logs of all glibc versions. getbuildlog wesnoth .*bpo.* Download all build logs of backported wesnoth versions. AUTHOR
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Debian Utilities GETBUILDLOG(1)
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