From: JustinMacCarthy (macarthy at domain iol.ie)
Date: Thu 04 Oct 2001 - 11:41:45 IST
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 domain nuvotem.com>
To: <ilug at domain 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
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>
>
>
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