Strip Logs 1

[fmuquartet]

Greetings:
Can someone help me with a little script that will strip LINES from my access logs that have a hyphen '-' in the 3rd position?

Example data:
192.168.15.101 - - [02/Jul/2008:10:28:26 -0500] "GET

In this case, I want to remove all LINES in my access log that has '-' in the 3rd position, as this notes an unauthenticated user and is just noise in my logs.


I am being told that possibly sed can help out, but don't know how to approach the problem.

Thanks!

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

Maybe awk would help:

awk '$3 != "-" {print $0;}' TheLogFile

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The person who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it. -- Chinese proverb

 

[fmuquartet]

LKBrwnDBA --
Would have never know it would be this easy, this resolved my problem and has cleaned my logs.

Thanks!