M.W. Chang wrote:
> I could figure this one out. but how to list all possible combinations
> of DPT=9999 in a text file? There should be an existing shell util that
> will do something like this:
>
> select distinct DPT=* from textfile
>
> then I need to direct each combination into a file and apply wc on it to
> produce a distribution
>
>> grep DPT=9999 /var/log/messages | wc
>
>
That's an SQL statement which would require all files be stored within a
database. It might be possible, but that's a *LOT* of overhead just to
do the same things that grep, awk and sed can do.
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