Re: Log file and grep

[Evan Platt [Permanent Link]]

At 03:55 PM 8/9/2007, Daryl wrote:
> Greetings,
>          Could someone be very kind..... and tell me a grep 
> command, that would show me the date,from,to information in my 
> mail.log file and pass that info into a file
> Sorry!
grep searches for a 'string'. So what string would you like to find?

# grep 07:15 /var/log/mail.log

Will search /var/log/mail.log for anthing with 07:15 in it.

# grep 07:15 /var/log/mail.log >/temp/test

puts the output to /temp/test.