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Greg Bradner
gregb at rhythm.com
Wed Apr 14 13:24:53 UTC 2004
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Steve Buehler wrote:
> Not sure what mailing list I need to join to ask this question, so I
> will ask it here in the hopes of getting a good response. I am trying
> to get a specific line out of a file that changes size regularly using
> a shell script (#!/bin/sh). I use the following command:
> /bin/cat $BACKUPLOG|grep "Downloaded: ">>$BACKUPLOG'2'
> Of course $BACKUPLOG and $BACKUPLOG'2' refer to a couple of files.
> For some reason, it will pull out lines that are NOT part of the line
> that has "Downloaded: " in it. The other lines do have the word
> "Downloaded" in them, but not the colon and space after it. I was
> wondering if it would be easier to tell it just to cat the 2nd line
> from the end of the file. That is where the line is always at.
> Problem is, I do not know how to do this. I hope that someone has an
> idea on this and would be kind enough to send me the correction.
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
>
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