Command grep -

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 15:24 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
> It's not clear to me what that should do but it produces a long list, 
> not in the form I need? I just want to filter [view] DST=17.*.
> 
> less syslog.txt | grep "DST=17\." does that and solves my immediate
> need.

As Suvayu already pointed out, using 'less' here is a waste of time.
Just run grep directly on the file, or if you want to use a pipe then
get the input from 'cat'.

poc