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5 .TH EXIGREP 8 "March 26, 2003"
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21 EXIGREP \- Search Exim's main log
24 .I [\-l] pattern [log file] ...
29 utility is a Perl script that searches one or more main log files for
30 entries that match a given pattern.
31 When it finds a match, it extracts all the log entries for the relevant
32 message, not just those that match the pattern.
35 can extract complete log entries for a given message, or all mail for a given
36 user, or for a given host, for example.
40 flag means \(oqliteral\(cq, that is, treat all characters in the pattern as
41 standing for themselves.
42 Otherwise the pattern must be a Perl regular expression.
43 The pattern match is case-insensitive.
44 If no file names are given on the command line, the standard input is
49 command is known from the definition of ZCAT_COMMAND in Local/Makefile,
51 automatically passes any file whose
52 name ends in COMPRESS_SUFFIX through
57 This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff
58 than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches
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64 /usr/share/doc/exim4\-base/
68 This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by
69 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>,
70 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).