Help with Grep

Rodent of Unusual Size Ken.Coar at Golux.Com
Thu Feb 13 16:01:24 EST 2003


Ed Lawson wrote:
> My son who is working at an unamed, but major health care institution in 
> boston has a desparate
> need to extract all instances of  the following four text strings in a 6 
> meg file:
> 
> po=
> to=
> delay=
> dsn=4
> 
>   It is an urgent issue as the SQL slammer just got into their internal 
> net and the instituion is down hard.
> 
> He was thinking he should be able to use grep, but not sure how to do it 
> and I can't come up with a quick answer at work.  Can anyone provide a 
> quick script/command to do this.  I assume perl would be another option.

what do you mean 'extract'?  extract the lines that contain them?
is it a text file?  remove lines containing those from the file?
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