find a key words in a file
 

Hi,

I have a huge file and I am only interest in loooking for the error that translate to the key words, below is my example within the file:


[28/Aug/2007:16:00:11 00] "GET /pls/orasso/orasso.wwsso_app_admin.ls_login?Site2pstoreToken=8F5F4DE8~DF7915230F9792769C4324C9D53422 AAA 100


as you can see, at the end of the error, there are AAA and 100, AAA are the keys words that I am looking for. Basically, I want to get the whole error string that had AAA and write all of those errors to a file.

Can someone help?

thanks

Use grep? grep pattern file > out file, e.g. grep "AAA 100" input > output.

You want grep, sed and awk; mostly grep as Nylex pointed out. See the
grep man page, and then get Classic Shell Scripting from
O'Reilly, it goes into a lot of detail about how to handle these things.

Joel

You can also consult the Rute book (check google) to get you started. You'll still need another book if you need more in-depth coverage.