On Wed, Jan 05, 2005, Tillman Hodgson wrote: >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:27:51PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: >> I want to look at all of the lines in a FreeBSD log file that do not >> have an entry from an IP, example 1.2.3.4. Some basic help with the >> use of grep would be appreciated. This is one of the arguments I've >> tried that didn't work: >> >> grep ^[^1.2.3.4]*$ logfile.log
You should probably single quote the pattern at the '^' character is an archaic synonym for the pipe symbol, and the * may be expanded by the shell. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Many citizens because of their respect for what only appears to be a law are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights due to ignorance.'' -- U.S. v. Minker _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
