On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:37:11 -0700, Account for Debian group mail ( > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm doing a search of a syslog file using less - and having a brain fart. > > > > I'm trying to make a regular search expression that will look for the > word > > "greylist" and the word "*.aol.com" in the same line of the syslog. > > > > I just do not remember how to do this and looking around the Internet I'm > > not finding what I need. > > > > Can anyone help me? > > Admittedly this does not answer your question (using 'less'), but this > should work: > > grep greylist /var/log/syslog | grep 'aol\.com'
If you want context lines (-3 before and +4 later in the example you could use A and B switch): grep -A4 -B3 "greylist.*\.aol\.com" /var/log/syslog | less > > > -- > Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. > Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
