Command grep -

[Suvayu Ali]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 07:04:43PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> 
> Am 12.04.2013 18:31, schrieb Bob Goodwin - Zuni:
> > 
> > If I do "less syslog.txt | grep DST=17." I get a mixture of outputs containing "17."
> 
> escaping and quotes are your friend
> less syslog.txt | grep "DST=17\."

Isn't it redundant to use less before the pipe, why not use grep
directly?

  $ grep "DST=17\." syslog.txt

If the OP expects a long output, he can do

  $ grep "DST=17\." syslog.txt | less

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