On Wednesday 07 February 2007 14:38, Jan Karjalainen wrote:
> I'd like to go through a file and find all the lines with the word
> "LOG" in them.
> How do I do that? Like "^(*[LOG]*)$" or what...?

grep LOG [filename]

I think you're trying to make this more complicated than it is.  Now if 
you want LOG to be a word by itself, then:

grep ' LOG ' [filename]

Of if it can be at the beginning or end of a line...

grep '\bLOG\b' [filename]


good luck,
brian

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