[ILUG] Newbie Perl Question

[JustinMacCarthy]

You might be better off using gawk and save yourself some work
gawk  '/\/en\/\{ print }' filename

Justin

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Declan Grady" <Declan.Grady at nuvotem.com>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:39 AM
Subject: [ILUG] Newbie Perl Question


> I have a 40 meg remote http access log file that I want to pull some info
> out of.
> I am trying to match all lines that have the text   "/en/" in them, to
pick
> out files accessed from that folder.
>
> can i match this by using     /\/en\//   ?  or am i misunderstanding the
> effect of the \ character ?
>
> I am using the command :
>
> perl -e 'open(I,"/logs/2001.log");while(<I>){print $_ if($_=~/\/en\//);}'
> >/tmp/en.log
>
>
> .... which some kind ilug'er suggested a while back, only using
> /text_to_match/
> in place of the /\/en\//
>
>
> Thanks,
> Declan
> [NODIS]
>
>
>
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