find a key words in a file

ashley75 · 08-29-2007, 02:28 PM

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

Nylex · 08-29-2007, 02:39 PM

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

trashbird1240 · 08-29-2007, 04:20 PM

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

jay73 · 08-29-2007, 04:30 PM

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.