Bash script that removes lines

[kevinthenerd]

I need a bash script that removes all the lines in a file that start with a specific string.

I want it for my httpd access log to remove all the local traffic (192.168.0.*)

Thanks.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

There's this neat script called "grep"

mv /path/to/access_log /path/to/access_log.old
fgrep -v "^192.168.0." /path/to/access_log.old > /path/to/access_log

BTW, I don't know what the "proper" thing to do is, but generally I don't tamper with log files, I just make adjustments to things that process them to weed out things like myself accessing my own website or whatever.

 

[EmperorRob]

You don't want a bash script you want a sed command:

sed /^192\.168/d

 

[Need4Speed]

just use webalizer to process the log file and have it ignore the lan side