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From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: awk pattern matching
Message-ID: <1248@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 14:45:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: cognos.1248
Posted: Thu Aug 13 14:45:55 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 08:50:54 EDT
References: <1092@gilsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1092@gilsys.UUCP> mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
! 
!    Let's say I want to output any line from the sulog that indicates that a
! user other than root, news or me attempted to su.  The format of the sulog
! records is:
! 
! 	SU 08/05 09:30 + tty02 msi-root
! 
!     the 6th field (msi-root) is the field I want to match to.  The basic
! pattern to be matched would be any of [root, news, me] with an explicit "-"
! and then *ANY* string of chars after that.  I have tried:
!
! [ awk script expunged ]

  Unless there is more to your awk script than simply writing out the
offending lines, what's wrong with:
  `egrep -v "root|news|mel" /usr/adm/sulog`
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