On 10/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@cus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hi guys,
>
> need your help on these thing. im using tail to access the logs of one
> file. but the problem is it has too many info that i dont need. i used grep
> but im having a hard time filtering the output.can i use tail then grep
> for certain columns i want?
>
>
> e.g tail -f file.log | grep nColumn ???
> tnx
>
>
Instead of using grep, try awk instead, e.g.,
# tail -f file.log | awk '{print $NColumn}'
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