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-Ken On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:00:41 -0700 (PDT) "Larry W. Virden" <lvir...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I regularly am forced to deal with a variety of logfiles on > Windows, and so in hopes of being able to do so with some grace, I > took a crack at accessing the files via Cygwin. > > For example, I've copied some of the "12 hive" tracing logs from > IIS (or maybe it is SharePoint... I'm still struggling to figure > all this out) into a directory to which I have access. > > Now I'd like to crunch those logs to see the errors, etc. > > awk and grep, however, do not seem to find anything in the files. > > Does anyone have pointers to some Cygwin based tools that I could > use to search, extract, summarize, etc. information from MS files? > I presume that once again Microsoft is using a "standard" format in > a strange manner. > > The weird thing is that when I use the "more" command, the file > looks just fine. > > Is anyone aware of any nifty Cygwin tools designed to help an admin > analyse log files? > > Thank you all very much. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
