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Old 05-14-2008
Trouble grepping for multiple strings
I am having a heck of a time trying to write a script that will grep for multiple strings in a single file. I am really at my wits end here and I am hoping to get some feedback here.

Basic information:

OS: Solaris 9
Shell: KSH
Oracle Database server

I was trying to grep through a file looking for two certain errors:

ORA-5543
and
ORA-1234

I have tried numerous combinations, but I cannot get it to work. I can get one value to work, but when I try the other, it does not work.


Anyone have some suggestions?
I greatly appreciate it.

TCG
# 2  
Old 05-14-2008
Wouldn't you know...just after I post this, I figure it out.

Smilie
# 3  
Old 05-14-2008
Code:
grep -e 'ORA-5543' -e 'ORA-1234' logfile

in case anyone reads the thread
# 4  
Old 05-14-2008
or
egrep 'string1|string2' file

cheers
# 5  
Old 05-15-2008
Blah...I forgot to post what I used. My apologies.
Here is what I used:

Code:
egrep -e 'ORA-5543|ORA-1234'

Smilie
# 6  
Old 05-16-2008
Code:
sed -n '/ORA-5543/p;/ORA-1234/p' filename

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