From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 24 18:34:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00362 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 18:34:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00353 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 18:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-132 [207.14.72.132]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA01531; Sat, 24 May 1997 16:31:14 -0800 Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 17:13:46 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Francisco Reyes cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Any program to maintain logs? In-Reply-To: <199705240459.AAA10773@federation.addy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 May 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Is there a program in FreeBSD that can be used to trimm log files? I am > interested in a program which could keep either a determined number of > lines per file or lines which are a determined number of days old. yeah - sed or awk. awk is pretty cool - check it out. but you probably just want sed. i have some good docs on them at my FTP site below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------