saving log information to a separate file
 

Hi,

I want to run 'grep' to parse out thousands of log files based on an IP address, and save this output to another file so that I can export it to another server. How would I go about doing this? Is there a command i can issue to work in conjunction with grep that will save this output to a separate file?

Thanks

You can use
cat logfile|grep something >newfile
or
cat logfile|grep something >>newfile
(>> adds at the end, >erases old file content)

Thanks!

This also worked for me.

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[root@xxxx]# grep 'something' 'logfile' > newfile
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Good to know about the difference between '>>' and '>'.