Grep Linux command

[toplisek]

I like to get logs and how is actually the correct way to do this?
Example:

grep /var/log/apache2/access.log
grep /var/log/mysql/error.log

 

[rpvw]

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression.

There are hundreds of example and tutorial sites for grep if you use your favorite search engine

As an example, if I wanted to get all the lines in the /var/log/apache2/access_log that contained the string "mod.php?mod=downloads" , I could use a command like:

grep "mod.php?mod=downloads" /var/log/apache2/access_log

This would output in my terminal potentially many lines of code, so I might pipe the output to a file instead eg

grep "mod.php?mod=downloads" /var/log/apache2/access_log > myfile

then I can open or download myfile and deal with it at leisure

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

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