Re: Less and regular expressions
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:37:11 -0700, Account for Debian group mail (debian@pcez.com) wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm doing a search of a syslog file using less - and having a brain fart.
>
> I'm trying to make a regular search expression that will look for the word
> "greylist" and the word "*.aol.com" in the same line of the syslog.
>
> I just do not remember how to do this and looking around the Internet I'm
> not finding what I need.
>
> Can anyone help me?
Admittedly this does not answer your question (using 'less'), but this
should work:
grep greylist /var/log/syslog | grep 'aol\.com'
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