Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:31:54 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: grep help Message-ID: <20050106043154.GI42299@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <41DCBE47.4070402@att.net> References: <41DCBE47.4070402@att.net>
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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
I like `grep -v` for "not" operations. Also note that "." is itself a
special character.
grep -v 1\.2\.3\.4 logfile.log
might be closer to what you want.
-T
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