From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 14:25:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4332037B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:25:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com (216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com [216.164.225.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6908343E65 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:25:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uminac@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com) Received: from localhost (uminac@localhost) by 216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6TLQ6T10400; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:26:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from uminac@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:26:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher J. Umina" To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: Oliver Humpage , FreeBSD Question Mailing List Subject: Re: matching a string In-Reply-To: <20020729142202.H71705-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> Message-ID: <20020729172558.G10373-100000@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Same thing... On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Try using 's/^[^;]; \[//' as the first pattern. > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Christopher J. Umina wrote: > > > when I run that this is my output even when I add the .+: > > > > Sun Jul 07, 2002 at 17:10:03; [kelzy16 > > Mon Jul 08, 2002 at 17:17:12; [cc skillet > > Wed Jul 10, 2002 at 17:53:41; [ccgirl436 > > Wed Jul 10, 2002 at 17:53:41; [ccgirl436 > > Thu Jul 11, 2002 at 16:58:31; [meikman99 > > Mon Jul 15, 2002 at 17:43:50; [bctictac8 > > Thu Jul 18, 2002 at 22:07:46; [superman lmd 69 > > Thu Jul 18, 2002 at 23:22:15; [russh2112 > > Thu Jul 18, 2002 at 23:22:27; [russh2112 > > Fri Jul 19, 2002 at 15:37:14; [lauren md 6 9 > > Fri Jul 19, 2002 at 16:36:06; [alldayyesterday > > Fri Jul 19, 2002 at 16:47:38; [fritzilldo > > Fri Jul 19, 2002 at 16:47:40; [beth42085 > > Sun Jul 21, 2002 at 19:17:59; [mastahuy85 > > Mon Jul 22, 2002 at 08:47:52; [dublindamien > > Mon Jul 22, 2002 at 10:23:17; [adarc22 > > Mon Jul 22, 2002 at 10:23:28; [adarc22 > > Mon Jul 22, 2002 at 10:23:56; [adarc22 > > Mon Jul 22, 2002 at 23:42:21; [katsie236 > > Tue Jul 23, 2002 at 22:19:23; [e is happy > > Wed Jul 24, 2002 at 19:04:14; [ilaughatyourlife > > Thu Jul 25, 2002 at 08:58:54; [adarc22 > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 14:40:06; [devilchik205 > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 15:43:55; [alldayyesterday > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 22:18:51; [reggie645 > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 22:36:57; [reggie645 > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 23:29:28; [sllissa85 > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 23:37:35; [jea9f2oo3 > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 23:49:17; [reggie645 > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 23:50:21; [reggie645 > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 23:51:29; [reggie645 > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 23:51:56; [reggie645 > > Fri Jul 26, 2002 at 23:54:01; [reggie645 > > Sat Jul 27, 2002 at 17:04:16; [meikman99 > > Sun Jul 28, 2002 at 10:08:09; [bctictac8 > > Sun Jul 28, 2002 at 10:39:36; [e is happy > > Sun Jul 28, 2002 at 23:15:38; [babygurl2835 > > Sun Jul 28, 2002 at 23:17:05; [babygurl2835 > > > > > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Oliver Humpage wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > > > > > > Something like... > > > > > > > > sed -e 's/^; \[//' -e 's/].*//' logfile > > > > > > > > should work... I'm sure there are lots of other ways to do it as well. > > > > > > Wouldn't you need to make the first bit: > > > > > > 's/^.+; \[//' > > > ^^ > > > ? > > > > > > Apart from that, thanks for a demonstration of sed's -e flag, I didn't > > > realise it did that :) > > > > > > Oliver. > > > > > > (PS This won't get posted to the list, since reverse IP lookup ain't > > > working...) > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message