yitzle schreef: > If you are on a Linux machine, it might just be easier > to use the grep command with a shell script. > > FILE_NAME="./log" > TMP_FILE="./tmp" > IP_TO_REMOVE="192.168.0.0|192.168.0.255" > > COUNT=`grep $IP_TO_REMOVE $FILE_NAME | wc -l` > echo "The IPs occur $COUNT times" > > grep -v $IP_TO_REMOVE $FILE_NAME > $TMP_FILE > mv $TMP_FILE $FILE_NAME
Be careful, the 192.168.0.0 can also match a line with 192.168.010 in it. See also the -F option of grep. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/