Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2800 mails)

[Jan Karjalainen <jrock@xxxxxxx>]

Brian Jackson wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 14:38, Jan Karjalainen wrote:
>   
> > I'd like to go through a file and find all the lines with the word
> > "LOG" in them.
> > How do I do that? Like "^(*[LOG]*)$" or what...?
> >     
>
> grep LOG [filename]
>
> I think you're trying to make this more complicated than it is.  Now if 
> you want LOG to be a word by itself, then:
>
> grep ' LOG ' [filename]
>
> Of if it can be at the beginning or end of a line...
>
> grep '\bLOG\b' [filename]
>
>
> good luck,
> brian
>
>   
Thanks for the tip, but I knew about grep already.
It's because of an application that has a search and replace function 
which supports regular expressions...

/J


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