Grep command

cornish · 11-20-2007, 07:39 AM

I need to use grep on a file using exclude can anyone help?

grep rsync errors.log

I want to exclude lines that contain (code 24) I have looked at the --exclude but had no joy

This seems so easy to do I feel ashamed asking

colucix · 11-20-2007, 07:44 AM

The --exclude option means to exclude FILES whose name matches a PATTERN from a recursive search. You should use -v instead and escape the parentheses, as in

Code:

grep -v "\(code 24\)"

See the difference between --exclude and -v in man grep.

cornish · 11-20-2007, 07:58 AM

I went for
grep rsync errors.log | grep -v "(code 24)

Seems to do the trick