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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Please explain this grep command Post 302797345 by bakunin on Monday 22nd of April 2013 12:00:25 PM
Old 04-22-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
Note that the 'server.log' in that grep command is almost certainly incorrect. The dot is behaving as a wildcard when what's most likely intended is a literal dot.
True. The other plausible explanation is that the writer of this intended to search a file named "server.log" for a string/regexp he just forgot to write. This would mean the statement is equally incorrect, but so for a different reason.

Code:
grep '<missing regexp>' -A 999999 server.log

In any way, your solution is preferable to this, albeit in case the intended purpose was like i said it would have to be modified slightly:

Code:
sed -n '/<missing regexp>/,$ { /Option=\[Yes]/p; }' server.log | wc -l

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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