On 2007-04-22, bilbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > log file which contains a lot of information. I wanted to extract some > informations out of it. But when I tried to > > tail -f mylog | grep 'smtg' | sed -n 's/end/notend/p' > > no output could be found. Which was quite surprising since the > following tests did their job without any problem: > > tail -200 mylog | grep 'smtg' | sed -n 's/end/notend/p' >
There is only one difference between these two lines - the first extracts the last 10 lines of mylog, the second extracts the last 200. The data you want is apparently not in the last 10 lines of mylog. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
