Hi Carrie

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:00:51PM -0400, Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

> Shimi's command above allows grep to include anything with 
> "Guidant IE5" in it.

Right.

> So I changed Shimi's grep to:
> cat /var/log/httpd/access | grep .ida? | wc -l

Sorry to be teacherish, but why the two pipes? I mean

grep '\.ida' /var/log/httpd/access | wc -l

does the job. Just quote the period and it's not a regexp anymore.

> And it cut down the number to the true attempts - 247.
> Still... sheesh.

Where's the problem? I mean, 247 hits, in a not mentioned timespan -
nothing new, right? We don't run Winslows boxes, so we don't have to
care. Tell me when I am completely wrong there.

CU
Andr�

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