Re: Parsing a large file

Windows server, though I may dump it to linux to get my smaller file, however not sure my admin would like that. :) Albert wrote: > Wolf wrote: > >>I have large log files from a web server (about a gig in size) and need >>to parse each line looking for a string, and when encountered push that >>line to a new file. I was thinking I could have PHP read in the whole >>file, but thinking it could be a major pain since I have about 20 log >>files to read through. >> >>Anyone have some suggestions? > > > Is this on a Linux server? > > Why don’t you use grep? > > cat <filename> | grep <string> > <newfile> > > see man grep for detail on grep. (It uses regular expressions) > > Albert >