Re: Less and regular expressions

["Javier Barroso" <javibarroso@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bob Cox <debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:37:11 -0700, Account for Debian group mail (debian@xxxxxxxx) wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm doing a search of a syslog file using less - and having a brain fart.
>
> I'm trying to make a regular search _expression_ that will look for the word
> "greylist" and the word "*.aol.com" in the same line of the syslog.
>
> I just do not remember how to do this and looking around the Internet I'm
> not finding what I need.
>
> Can anyone help me?

Admittedly this does not answer your question (using 'less'), but this
should work:

grep greylist /var/log/syslog | grep 'aol\.com'

If you want context lines (-3 before and +4 later in the example you could use A and B switch):

grep -A4 -B3 "greylist.*\.aol\.com" /var/log/syslog | less
 

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