Op 31 mrt. 2016 12:47 schreef "Simon Lyall" <si...@darkmere.gen.nz>: > > I'm looking for a tool that might handle this nicely. > > I have some asterisk log files that are generated by daemontools' multilog. The problem is that daemontools rotates logs every few minutes at the volumes I do so a single call can be scattered across several files. Total files might be a few GB. > > Does anyone know a good tool that let us search across multiple files for strings and display them? (along with nearby lines). The basic requirements > are to trace a problem call by finding a number or call id and jumping around checking the 10 lines or so on each side of it.
The first thing that comes to mind is grep, with -A and -B (after/before) parameters. Not sure how it will perform with such big datasets, but it's probably a lot quicker than vi ;). Mvg, Guus Snijders
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