Re: Suggestion for grep

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Hi Marc,

> I hope I'm writing the right person. Have you ever considered writing a
> version of grep that scanned the file backwards? The reason is that I
> often am searching some 20 gig log file knowing that what I'm looking
> for is most likely near the end of the file. So a backwards switch would
> be handy.

The non-deterministic reverse grep, nr-grep, takes this idea further.
Check it out at:

http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~gnavarro/software/

As for your task, try something like:

tail -1000 access_log | grep mygregexp

I use a similar command to monitor my own logs.

Cheers,

TAA

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