It's not really BBEdit related, but you can do the following from the
command-line:

grep -v unwanted_user_name logfile.log > filteredfile.log

if the file is gzipped:
gzcat logfile.log.gz | grep -v unwanted_user_name > filteredfile.log

As mentioned earlier, you can read through BBEdit's grep reference
under the Help menu. The grep man page may also be helpful.

--bernie

On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:01 PM, W. Thomas Leroux wrote:

I have a rather large (~20MB) log file, and I want to delete all the
lines that *don't* contain a string (in this case, a username).

I'm sure there is some kind of greppy goodness that can be applied to
accomplish this, but I don't know the first thing about grep. :-/

Any suggestions?  Thank you!


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