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JCats
JCats

Reputation: 141

Bash exclude a line from ouput if the line matches a certain text

I am looking to create a cronjob that will alert us if a certain directory has sent out a certain amount of emails from scanning a log file. The one liner I am using is:

awk '$3 ~ /^cwd/{print $3}' /var/log/exim_mainlog | sort | uniq -c | sed "s|^ *||g" | sort -nr | head --lines 5

before I get any further, I need to exclude some locations from the output, example:

50992 cwd=/var/spool/exim
21960 cwd=/home/USER1/public_html/wp-content/cache/object/000000/746
2717 cwd=/etc/csf
2063 cwd=/home/USER2
1072 cwd=/

I need to exclude:

1072 cwd=/
2717 cwd=/etc/csf
50992 cwd=/var/spool/exim

Would I need to append the output to a txt file then use SED or is there an easier method?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 90

Answers (1)

Charles Duffy
Charles Duffy

Reputation: 295639

Pipe through grep -v to exclude matches:

egrep -v ' cwd=(/$|/etc/csf|/var/spool/exim)'

Upvotes: 2

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