preproccessing log files

[Francis J. Lacoste]

On ven, 2003-02-07 at 15:25, Michael Grau wrote:
> How can one define $filter in the scripts
> that are run by cron so that it gets evaluated
> like so:
> 
> gzip -dc <$log | grep id-firewall
> 
> or, how can I setup multiple filters?
> 

Filter can be almost any shell fragment. So you can use

gzip -dc | grep id-firewall

as your filter value and it should just works. (The log is always fed
using STDIN).


Thanks for your interest in LogReport, kind regards,

Francis J. Lacoste

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