Hey programming gurus... I want to write a script which takes a block of text and extracts any numbers which match a 123.456.789.012 pattern. I am not looking for any numbers in particular (so I don't think the grep command will be of much help) but rather, any set of numbers that looks like an IP address.
Basically the script is to look through some log files and find all of the IP numbers listed there. Having accomplished this, the script is to compile a list of the numbers it finds by redirecting the output to a text file. I'm planning to set this up as a supplemental automatic log-scanning tool that will run nightly as a cron job. Could sed or awk be of use here? Not intimately familiar with either, but I have heard they are powerful text-processing tools. I can research them on my own if you guys think I should go that route. I'm sure this is a simple task but I'm too green to know where to start. Your thoughts, please. Thanks, Matt > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
