Re: jump to May 6 in a log file

That was the problem I did not notice there were two spaces.


Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Jacobson <jay@edgeos.com>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 13:07:25 -0700 (MST)
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: jump to May 6 in a log file

> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Gary Nichols wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 8 May 2004, Jim Smith wrote:
> >
> > > I have a log file and I want to go to May 6 in it I tried / and then
> > > May 6 with qoutes without qoutes with single quotes etc but no go,
> > > what am I doing wrong?
> >
> > There are some opensource tools that do just that, but you probably just
> > want to whip out a:
> >
> > grep "May 6" logfile | more
>
>
> Indeed. Particularly make note of the two spaces between "May" and "6" in
> Gary's example. This will get you every time. Lookig for "May 6" will not
> return anything, but "May 6" will return what you are looking for. Two
> spaces generally required when the day is a single digit.
>
> ~Jay
>
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