SilverFox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hey guys, i'm trying to grep some data from a log file and getting the
> following error. Any ideas???
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl -e 'grep \"Eliminating movie\" update.log |awk {'print
> \$5'}';
>
> Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
You're mixing perl up with shell!
Maybe what you are trying to do is:
grep "Eliminating movie" update.log | awk '{ print $5'}'
Or if you want this in perl, then you certainly would not be using 'grep' and
not make a SYSTEM call to awk.
???
-JW
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